**New analysis sheds light on mystery of turtle remains found in a Roman Iron Age grave in Poland**

The remains of a European pond turtle found in an ancient grave in northern Poland could shed new light on the Wielbark culture, a Roman Iron Age culture associated with Gothic and other Germanic peoples who lived in the Barbaricum (that is, outside the Roman Empire) between the 1st and 5th century AD.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-analysis-mystery-turtle-roman-iron.html