Archaeologists working in central London have discovered a fourteenth-century burial ground that might contain victims of the Black Death. Thirteen skeletons have been uncovered lying in two carefully laid out rows on the edge of Charterhouse Square at Farringdon, and are believed to be up to 660 years old.Historical records reference a burial ground in the Farringdon area that opened during the Black Death Plague in 1348. The limited written records suggest up to 50,000 people may have been buried in less than three years in the hastily established cemetery, with the burial ground used up until the 1500s.
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What are the first sights you seek when you travel to a new city? The museums? The top restaurants? Or the cemeteries? I choose cemeteries. Although some people think that's weird, I find them a through-the-looking-glass way of understanding a place and how it grew.
The remains of a medieval knight or nobleman found underneath a car park are to be moved to make way for a university building. The grave and evidence of a 13th Century monastery were uncovered when archaeologists were called to an Edinburgh Old Town building site.
A memorial to seven dead airmen who were based in Lincolnshire during World War II is set be unveiled in Denmark. The 44 Squadron crew was shot down by a German fighter pilot over the Baltic Sea 70 years ago.
The ashes of Australia's most decorated World War II servicewoman, former saboteur and spy Nancy Wake, have been scattered at a ceremony in France. The service took place in a forest near the village of Verneix, whose mayor attended the ceremony, as did an Australian military representative.
Mary Paine died on New Year’s Eve in 1713. At 15 months old, she had barely lived. But because of Roland McCandlish, Mary’s headstone saw the world.
A recent audit at Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee - Wisconsin's only national veterans cemetery - discovered that 32 graves had misplaced headstones.
There are still some soldiers who died in World War I for whom there is no memorial. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is trying to find a place in the Somme for a new memorial with thousands of names that have been missed.
"Pioneers! O, Pioneers!" wrote Walt Whitman of the intrepid folks who pushed ever westward when the nation was young. But brave souls ventured far south, too, into a vast, mosquito-infested swampland.
The din of machinery mingled with the echo of the 19th century Crimean War when an excavator bucket stumbled upon the yellowed remains of long-dead French soldiers at a construction site in a southern Ukrainian port city.
British war graves in India are in danger of being dug up to make way for a new metro rail line. Some of the 2,000 graves in Lucknow, the Uttar Pradesh state capital, could be destroyed as part of plans by the city’s authorities to build a railway line.
A new smartphone app released on Tuesday allows people to find information about cemeteries across Britain that provide final resting places for those who died in World War I, which ranged from 1914 to 1918, the Duke of Kent said.
To some, it may sound like a strange way to spend a vacation. But for many visitors, the carefully manicured grounds of cemeteries can provide beautiful moments to remember history's fascinating figures.
Workers have found at least 27 graves at the site of a construction project in downtown Charleston. The city is spending $142 million to renovate Gaillard Auditorium. But now workers have discovered more than two dozen graves and have more areas to search.
Two village moms are teaming up to tidy and repair a historic Mount Kisco cemetery that played a role in the Revolutionary War.