Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This digital image was generated from a 3D scan of Beachy Head Woman’s skull. The skin, hair and eye pigmentation were informed by ...

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was. It turns out this mysterious woman is not the 'first Black Briton', as some ...

Scientists have shed light on the true origins of the so-called "first Black Briton". The skeletal remains - dating from Roman times - were previously thought to belong to a woman from the sub-Saharan ...

A woman billed as the 'first black Briton' was in fact white and from southern England, according to new DNA analysis. For years it has been believed that 'Beachy Head Woman' – an ancient skeleton who ...

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A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific controversy for more than the last decade. We know her name as the Beachy Head ...