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  1. Virida, still young, retired from court but remained in Austria the rest of her long life. She outlived all but two of her children, dying at age 63, and was buried at Sittich, Karnten, Austria. sources: Muir, Dorothy. A History of Milan under the Visconti. London: Methuen, 1924. Wheatcroft, Andrew. The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire. NY: Viking ...

  2. Leopold III: marriage and offspring. Leopold was the founder of the branch of the dynasty from which all the Habsburgs of the Early Modern era were to trace their descent. In 1365 at the age of fourteen his brother Rudolf arranged for him to be married to Viridis Visconti, who was about his own age.

  3. Nov 21, 2020 · Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of two men who died in the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago. One was probably a man of high...

  4. Feb 14, 2024 · Almost two decades ago, when construction unearthed a 2,000-year-old Celtic cemetery in what’s now the Italian city of Verona, scientists found the remains of humans buried alongside the...

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  5. Jan 25, 2016 · The new report found that between 1900 and 1973, over 100 boys died at the Dozier school. The 1400-acre school was the site not only of a cemetery, but also of a number of unmarked graves.

  6. Oct 5, 2015 · Researchers preserved the bodies' outlines by pouring plaster into the cavities, allowing the liquid to harden into a cast.

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  8. Oct 1, 2015 · Bronze age Britons may have mummified their dead by tossing them into peat bogs or smoking them over a fire, according to archaeologists who have studied the bones of hundreds of ancient locals.