Bones thought to belong to soldiers killed at the Battle of Waterloo have been discovered in an attic in Belgium. 7NEWS
Scientists are now analysing the human remains to try to learn more about the identity of those who died.
Last November, Bernard Wilkin, a senior researcher at the State Archives of Belgium, was in Waterloo giving a talk on the process – in which the bones used as a kind of charcoal in sugar purification – when something astonishing happened. Two skulls were among the human remains discovered in the Belgian attic. They displayed signs of extreme violence.A few days later, Wilkin visited the man at his home and came face to face with the remains, which the man had had since the 1980s.
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