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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 17 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Roughly 1,000 skeletons of plague victims have so far been found in mass graves in the center of the city of Nuremberg, which experts believe may contain a total of more than 1,500 people, according to a press release published Tuesday.

Melanie Langbein, from Nuremberg’s department for heritage conservation, told CNN that eight plague pits were identified, each containing several hundred bodies.

“This means a large number of dead people who needed to be buried in a short time frame without regard to Christian burial practices,” she said.

Langbein told CNN that the 1632-1633 epidemic was worse than those that came before because of the impact of the Thirty Years War, a series of conflicts fought by various European nations from 1618 to 1648.

“We can with statistical means explore the size and demographic of the city with the same tools that a modern census team would with a recent population,” said Decker, including the percentage of children and adults, women and men and general health.

There will also be collaborations with institutions interested in certain aspects of the findings, including analyzing the plague genome and investigating parasite eggs in the soil, she added.


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