'Liquid gypsum' burial from Roman Britain scanned in 3D, revealing 1,700-year-old secrets
When you buy through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . About 1,700 years ago , a wealthy Roman family was bury with a bizarre stuff — liquified gypsum — stream over their corpse . Now , a noninvasive 3D scan of this burial has divulge the interior of their burial cocoon . Gypsum is a mineral and key ingredient in cement and plaster that , on rarified occasions , Romanic - era people used in burying ....