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Italian archaeologists have recently unearthed the fossilized skeletal remains of a 4,500-year-old warrior on a beach just South of the capital city of Rome. The man, who experts believe was killed by an arrow strike to the chest, was found by an aerial police patrol, of all things. As the authorities surveyed the area for possible places of archaeological interest, they observed a fissure in the ground and decided to further investigate it. Their idea yielded immediate results, as they found the well-preserved remains almost immediately. Reuters reports that the man was named Nello. The fossils were discovered in May, on a beach that has had archaeologists buzzing for quite some time. “We thought [the body] was that of a Roman solider, but then the experts identified it as dating back to the third millennium B.C.,†Raffaele Mancino explained. He is part of the Italian police division overseeing the country's cultural heritage. The official also mentioned that six vas!
es were found next to the corpse, which could mean that he was an important member of the society at the time of his death. According to the official, the warrior lived within only a few hundred years from the famous Otzi man, a fossil that was discovered back in 1991, in the Italian Alps. The young man found on the beach was ...
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