Hosted on MSN1mon
Bronze, Iron Age ritual linked to hundreds of bodies found in UK’s Thames River: Study
Over the past two hundred years, hundreds of human bones have been dredged up from the iconic River Thames that runs through London. According to a new study, most date back to the Bronze and Iron ...
Live Science on MSN1mon
People have been dumping corpses into the Thames since at least the Bronze Age, study finds
"There really was something significant going on in the Bronze and Iron Ages." The exact reason for the bodies' placement in the Thames is unclear ... moved the arguments along, but the funerary ...
The New York Times29d
A Boneyard Along the Thames River Reveals London’s Ancient Burials
And because there is so much activity on the Thames, its mud is constantly yielding historical treasures. In 2018, workers building a new sewage tunnel along ... either the Bronze or Iron Age ...
AOL1mon
No One Knows Why This River Is Filled With Human Bones
Why so many human remains from the Bronze and Iron Age have surfaced from the Thames remains unknown. Researchers have dated a large number of the skeletons to those time periods, which possibly ...