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Title: Rail dig may have found London's lost "Black Death" graves
Post by: riky on March 16, 2013, 08:00:27 AM
Rail dig may have found London's lost "Black Death" graves

LONDON (Reuters) - Archaeologists said on Friday they had discovered a lost burial ground during excavations for a massive new rail project in London which might hold the bodies of some 50,000 people who were killed by the "Black Death" plague more than 650 years ago. Thirteen skeletons, laid out in two careful rows, were found 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) below the road in the Farringdon area of central London by researchers working on the 16 billion pound ($24 billion) Crossrail project. ...

Source: Rail dig may have found London's lost "Black Death" graves (http://news.yahoo.com/rail-dig-may-found-londons-lost-black-death-114006583.html)