Roman gypsum burials

I wrote early last year in Gypsum burials in Roman Yorkshire about research being undertaken into burials in the region during the Roman period where the body of the deceased was covered in gypsum as part of the preparation for burial. 

Some of the results of this new study can be read about in an online article from Live Science, and which is accessible at 'They had not been seen ever before': Romans made liquid gypsum paste and smeared it over the dead before burial, leaving fingerprints behind, new research finds