London rail work unearths thousands of skeletons from Bedlam
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 15:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
They came from every parish of London, and from all walks of life, and ended up in a burial ground called Bedlam. Now scientists hope their centuries-old skeletons can reveal new information about how long-ago Londoners lived—and about the bubonic plague that often killed them.