Black Death
The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 1 month AGO
In this Wednesday, March 26 photo, Don Walker, a human osteologist with the Museum of London, holds the skull of one of the skeletons found by construction workers under central London's Charterhouse Square, while posing for photographers. Twenty-five skeletons were uncovered last year during work on Crossrail, a new rail line that's boring 13 miles (21 kilometers) of tunnels under the heart of the city. Archaeologists immediately suspected the bones came from a cemetery for victims of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the 14th century. The Black Death, as the plaugue was called, is thought to have killed at least 75 million people, including more than half of Britain's population.
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