2000 bodies found in medieval cemetery

Of course, you would expect to find bodies in a cemetery, but the number of corpses discovered in a medieval graveyard in central Berlin is staggering. Many of them were children, reinforcing the idea of their high mortality rate during the Middle Ages. The remains will be examined to determine gender, age at death, and possible disease before reburial at a different location. I look forward to the results of the examination; I suspect that plague, possibly an episode of the Black Death, could explain the overwhelming number of bodies.

Find out more about the excavation in the article at Spiegel Online.