Possible 1665 ‘plague pit’ latest unearthed link to London’s storied past By Laura Smith-Spark and Kellie Morgan , CNN 4 minute read ...

Plague pit with skeletons of 48 Black Death victims, including 21 children, found at abbey in Lincolnshire. Mass burial pits remain unusual from disease that killed around half of Britain's population ...

The site contained a series of plague pits that were created during the 1647 to 1648 outbreak. The team identified ancient DNA of Yersinia pestis in human remains from one of the plague pits.

Plague pits containing the remains of at least 1,000 victims have been unearthed in southern Germany. The pits could together form the largest mass grave ever discovered in Europe, archaeologists say.

The site was associated with the general location of plague pits that were established on the Queen's Links (a Scots term for coastal sand dunes) during the 1647–48 outbreak of the plague.

In 2013, a plague pit thought to be the biggest ever discovered was found in Charterhouse Square, Farringdon. In the 1860s, workers constructing Aldgate Station came across a mass grave 40 ft in ...

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NUREMBERG, GERMANY—According to a CNN report, eight plague pits estimated to hold the remains of more than 1,500 people were discovered in southern Germany during an investigation conducted ...

Researchers extracted DNA from the remains of people buried in the East Smithfield plague pits, which were used for mass burials in 1348 and 1349. (Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)) When the ...

The pit could contain anywhere from 1,500 to 2,000 bodies, and experts suggest that it was likely hastily dug for plague victims who died around 1632-1633.

The during-the-plague sample had already been identified after scientists in the 1980s excavated one of London’s plague pits at East Smithfield cemetery. Those remains were later used to determine the ...