It is one of the largest pit burials ever excavated in the UK ... The team initially thought the people buried were victims of the Black Death, but radiocarbon testing on the bones showed they ...

A "Black Death" burial site has been found under London's Liverpool Street Station. Thirty victims of the 1665 Great Plague were buried at the site. The catastrophic epidemic wiped out a fifth of ...

And now archaeologists have found the remains of what appears to be victims of the widespread disease, in a pit in Luxor ... used until it became a plague-burial site in the 3rd Century AD ...