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 ...

We initially thought this was going to be the first evidence of the Black Death arriving ... bodies for burial before someone from a central authority collected them to take to the pit burial.

AMMAN — The researchers who worked in the Black ... pit; and another comes from the site of QUR-148, where a tower tomb 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 ...