Medieval African Found Buried in England

Discovery News ^ | Monday, May 3, 2010 | Raphael G. Satter, AP

[SunkenCiv]

Forensics experts at the University of Dundee Scotland say that the bones most likely belonged to a man from modern-day Tunisia who spent about a decade living in England before he died... The man -- who appears to have died of a spinal abscess -- was identified as African by studying his skeleton and the historical record of the friary where he was buried.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, the parsimonious gene maps of a couple thousand years hence are going to be a hoot. Those who rely on them will not know it, of course. ;’)

[mylife]

LoL!

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Achoo!

[RegulatorCountry]

Time travel again?

[SunkenCiv]

My wild guess, it’s probably related to membership in a religious order.

[mylife]

You know it is interesting that there is more pristine Roman architecture in Libya than there is in Rome.

Largely because Rome was sacked by the Visigoths

[mylife]

Yeah, that’s the ticket!

[BIGLOOK]

Oh no......you mean a Christian?

That would make him a refugee.

[SunkenCiv]

The city of Rome was under a constant state of being dismantled, usually at night under cover of the moving carts (cart traffic was banned in the daytime); the crooks would pick an unguarded and/or underused building and tear out as much saleable ready-cut stone as they could get, treating existing structures as quarries. Various emperors made proclamations against this practice, to no avail.

[mylife]

Its amazing how much was lost.

[Oratam]

In related news, researchers have uncovered the tomb of an early dark ages African in the northern Italian province of Lombardy. The burial site bears the curious inscription Augustinus Hipponensis. Researchers are befuddled by the presense of this African's grave so far from his home continent.

The point I'm making is how the state of scholarship has deteriorated in the West in such a short time. We've already forgotten how closely inter-connected all of 'Christendom' once was.

[GreenLanternCorps]

[Fiji Hill]

In 1270, Crusaders invaded what is now Tunisia and captured Carthage. Maybe this fellow was a POW, a slave, or perhaps a recruit who decided to come back with them.

[SunkenCiv]

He must have been given the choice. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Could have arrived there as a result (somehow) of the Crusades; could have come from Tunisia via Italy. Could have been a captive or servant who’d been sold or gifted from one noble house to another.

[tophat9000]

This was a Morgan Freeman movie, wasn’t it?

Yea I remember that one, it was called

"Black To The Future!"

[STD]

Found out about the Britian’s generous welfare system, which is the envy of the islamic world. Notice how fast rats reproduce!

[ApplegateRanch]

Is it the remains of Sir Morien, or Sir palomides?

[Tainan]

"He played a moor in a robin hood movie."

Yeah thats the one I was thinking of.

" Yea I remember that one, it was called... "Black To The Future!"

ahhh...good one...close...LOL!