Is This Pliny The Elder’s Skull?

Over the last few years a pool of Italian biologists, anthropologistsand geochemists conducted a series of forensic tests on the skull andaccompanying lower mandible, which were unearthed 120 years ago on ashore not far from Pompeii. On Jan. 23 the scientists presented theirfindings at a conference in the museum. The skull, they concluded,squared with what was known about Pliny at his death, but the jawbonebelonged to someone else. – The New York Times