The number of skeletons in the plague pits may exceed 1,500. These are the remains of women, men and children.
In the German city of Nuremberg, archaeologists have unearthed the largest to date burial site of victims of plague epidemics in Europe.
They found eight plague pits with hundreds of human skeletons, as well as fragments of ceramics and coins. About the results of excavations scientists told on the website of the scientific organization In Terra Verita.
Conducted radiocarbon study showed that in the graves people were buried in the period from 1622 to 1634 years, and it coincides with the occasional outbreaks of plague from 1533 to 1634 in Nuremberg.
In total, the plague claimed about 30,000 lives of the townspeople. The bodies of the dead were buried outside the cemeteries.
Earlier, archaeologists in Switzerland found traces of a plow, which are about 7000 years old.