25 July 2020 - 700-YEAR-OLD SKELETONS SHOW COUPLE HOLDING HANDS

700-YEAR-OLD SKELETONS SHOW

 COUPLE HOLDING HANDS

G'day folks,

We all dream of finding that one true love. Not only did this couple find their true love, they took it to the whole new level. Researchers and archaeologists teamed up to unearth a story that is stirring up quite a buzz. They found something buried next to an ancient church in England and they are incredibly excited about the discovery.

Recently a team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) began working on a 4 year project that included the excavation of whatever they found. This project was done in a small village in England called Hallaton.

What they found startled them! This couple was found in a chapel buried for 700 years. But if you look closely, their arms and wrapped around each other and they are holding hands.

Because there are no notes showing why this couple is buried here, it’s said that they may have been refused burial in the main church because they were possibly criminals.

There were 9 other bodies found along with this couple. Many of them had injuries that may lead to some conclusions about their death. One appeared to have been killed by being hit on the head with a sharp object, similar to an axe.

   

Clancy's comment: Amazing, eh? Mm ... sounds like they had a violent death.

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15 November 2017 - DEATHLY SECRETS OF PARIS

DEATHLY SECRETS 

OF PARIS

G'day folks,

Welcome to another mysterious find. This time it's in Paris.

Underneath the product aisles of a well-known Monoprix supermarket branch in central Paris, the skeletons of up to 200 lost souls have been discovered buried in a mass grave.

Luckily for the Monoprix stockboys, the discovery wasn’t made until the supermarket chain decided to expand its levels and dig further into the basement of the building on Boulevard de Sébastopol, where according to public historical records, had been the site of a hospital cemetery between the 12th and 17th century.

Ordinarily, it’s assumed most of Paris’ long-dead were exhumed from the city’s overcrowding cemeteries 200 years ago and transferred to the catacombs, but expert archeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) were called in as a precaution.

Although the team knew it was a possibility they would find some scattered skeletal remains, they were in no way expecting to find up to 200 bodies neatly laid out in several locations throughout the basement, right under the feet of blissfully unaware Parisians doing their grocery shopping.

The archeologists believe the people buried here in such a fashion would have likely died from an epidemic, likely the plague, or perhaps famine. DNA tests will be carried out to reveal some answers at which point the bodies will be taken into the care of the state and given a final resting place, perhaps more suitable than say, directly under the supermarket’s frozen food section on aisle 4.

  

Clancy's comment: Yet another odd find, eh? I wonder what else will be found in years to come.

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