Discovered a mass grave from the XV century in London

When excavating the Crossrail high-speed subway tunnel in London, construction workers discovered a burial place for plague victims in the fifteenth century - a pandemic that caused the deaths of tens of millions of people. , accounting for 1/3 of the European population.

Researching the DNA samples of the plague strain 600 years ago, one can learn many new things about the development and spread of this epidemic.

A skeleton was discovered at the collective burial site.

The burial site has a diameter of about 5.5m, has 13 bones, placed in two straight rows.From here, it can be deduced that these people died at the beginning of the pandemic, because later on, due to the death of so many people only dig big holes and throw them down and bury many people.

The plague of the fifteenth century killed one fifth of London's population, mostly buried outside the city but did not know the exact location. So, from the graves found will gather valuable documents, illuminating the rays of the health of the ancient London. .

Archaeologist Nick Elsden said: ' We envisioned images of people in the fifteenth century. The bones show that these are people who do heavy work. From the teeth of the skeletons, the DNA of plague bacteria is removed.

Archaeologists believe that these skeletons are no longer dangerous and have long ceased to be the source of the disease.

Let's remember, when building this metro line, people once dug up bronze relics and discovered the largest amber chamber on British territory.

In April 2011 the construction team also met a zone containing hundreds of bones. Now people are digging out to find more artifacts and dig deeper into the earlier cultural floors.

The main archaeologist Jay Carver added that at this very road, many floors have been seen in relation to history from prehistory to the twentieth century. The total length of the road is 118km and will be inaugurated in 2018.