ARCHAEOLOGISTS TAP ANCIENT CEMETERY
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[ January 27th 2006 ]

British archaeologists have unearthed a medieval cemetery containing around 1,300 skeletons in the central English city of Leicester, Associated Press reports. The bones were found during a dig before the site is developed as part of a 630 USD million shopping mall.

"We think, probably outside London, this must be one of the largest parish graveyards ever excavated," said Richard Buckley, director of University of Leicester Archaeology Services.

"Archaeology will tell us a lot from the rubbish people throw away. We can really learn about the lives they were leading. But it's very rare that we get a look at a (whole) population itself. It's quite a tightly dated group."

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