London : Black Death skeletons unearthed (Video)

As per latest report by archaeologists, molars taken from 25 skeletons unearthed during work on Crossrail in 2013 are proving helpful in revealing secrets of the medieval Black Death. Archeologists suspected that the skeletons of bones belonged to cemetery for plague victims.

During this past week Don Walker, whom is an osteologist from the Museum of London, as been outlining a report on the ancient bones of a man they had discovered. One thing that’s strange is how deep they could go with the information, knowing things like he was breast fed as a baby. They also found out that this particular skeleton of a man had moved to London from a different portion of England, he also had very bad tooth decay during his child hood. He grew up working as a labourer and died due to the plague that conquered the European population during the 14th century.

This man lived a very nasty and sadistic lifestyle, that is the way it worked back in the medieval times; but it isn’t in vain seeing as he’s now helping us understand the past. “It’s fantastic we can look in such detail at an individual who died 600 years ago,” stated Don Walker. “It’s incredible, really.”

There were twenty five skeletons discovered in the unearthing last year due to the new rail line being put it (which extends a whopping 13 miles, or 21 kilometres). They automatically assumed that the location was a previously created cemetery for these bodies (these bodies referring to the victims whom were inflicted with the plague). They took a tooth from each skeleton and extracted the DNA for information. The plague (Yersinia pestis) was found in most of their teeth, meaning that they more than likely died from the Black Death.

Agencies/Canadajournal

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