Tag: Dalya Alberge
Mass grave in London reveals how volcano caused global catastrophe
When archaeologists discovered thousands of medieval skeletons in a mass burial pit in east London in the 1990s, they assumed they were 14th-century victims of the Black Death or the Great Famine of 1315-17. Now they have been astonished by a more explosive explanation – a cataclysmic volcano that had erupted a century earlier, thousands of miles away in the tropics, and wrought havoc on medieval Britons.
Archaeologists accuse MoD of allowing US company to ‘plunder’ shipwreck
Experts take legal advice in effort to block lucrative deal on underwater excavation of HMS Victory