Mysterious decoding 10,000 13th century skeletons in London

British archaeologists say thousands of skeletons found in a mass grave in London are victims of a volcanic eruption in the 13th century, which occurred thousands of kilometers away, According to the Daily Mail newspaper.

British archaeologists say thousands of skeletons found in a mass grave in London are victims of a volcanic eruption in the 13th century, which occurred thousands of kilometers away, According to the Daily Mail newspaper.

An excavation, which was conducted between 1991 and 2007, discovered 10,500 medieval skeletons at Spitalfields Market in eastern London (England).

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British archaeologists consider a excavated casket at Spitalfields market - (Photo: Daily Mail)

At that time, experts said that those people died in a pandemic of Black Death or the Great Famine.

However, after conducting bone age determination by radiocarbon method, experts from London Archaeological Museum came to the conclusion that it was the remains of victims in the volcanic eruption. 13th century - one of the largest volcanic disasters of 10,000 years.

Scientists say that the eruption was so great that the sulfur produced a dry fog covering the earth's stratosphere, blocking sunlight, changing the atmosphere and cooling the earth's surface. , causing hunger, epidemics and death.

Up to 15,000 people in London at the time may have died, scientists said.

Although the volcanic location has not been determined, the researchers believe it could be as far away as Mexico, Ecuador, and Indonesia and is eight times higher than the Mount Krakatoa (Indonesia) eruption in 1883.

Update 17 December 2018
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