London rail workers find likely plague burial pit

Friday, March 15, 2013 - 11:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death — a plague that wiped out as much as half of London's inhabitants when it swept the city in the mid-14th century.

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