A school portrait of Michelle Louise Collier, who vanished from Fresno at the age of 15 in February 1978. Nearly five decades after a teenage girl was discovered buried in a shallow grave beneath a California vineyard, investigators have finally restored her identity through advances in forensic DNA technology. The victim, known only as “Arvin…

pc: ebekka Kuiter. Credit: © Varusschlacht im Osnabrücker Land. For generations, much of what historians understood about Roman legionaries came from carved monuments, scattered metal fragments and later military equipment. Complete examples from the earliest decades of the Roman Empire have remained almost impossible to study. That picture has shifted after archaeologists carefully conserved a…