A 13-year-old girl helped unearth an ancient Roman town. She's finally getting credit for it over 90 years later.

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A girl in a plaid dress and braids excavated an Ancient Roman town in the 1930s
At 13, Helen Carlton-Smith took part in excavating Verulamium and kept a diary of the dig.

Photographs from the Verulamium Excavations of the 1930s ©St Albans Museums

Pompeii find reveals the secrets of life as a slave in Ancient Rome, frozen in time for almost 2,000 years by volcanic eruption

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Room containing two beds, one without a mattress, cabinets, urns and containers was found by archaeologists at the Civita Giuliana villa
A small bedroom used by slaves is pictured after it was discovered by archaeologists in a Roman villa near Pompeii, Italy.

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A commuter train excavation near Notre Dame Cathedral has uncovered a 2,000-year-old necropolis containing bodies buried with coins in their mouths and an entire pig skeleton

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Burial from the excavation of Boulevard de Port-Royal in Paris, in 2023. The burials of a large necropolis, located south of Lutèce in the 2nd century AD, have been unearthed. © Nicolas Warmé, Inrap
Burial from the excavation of Boulevard de Port-Royal in Paris, in 2023. The burials of a large necropolis, located south of Lutèce in the 2nd century AD, have been unearthed.

Nicolas Warmé, Inrap

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