"The study offers what the researchers describe as the first systematically identified burial site in Europe associated with plague burials, revealing a large buried structure filled with disturbed sediments and fragments of human bone."
"Medieval sources from Erfurt report that during the outbreak of 1350, about 12,000 people were buried in eleven large pits outside the city, indicating the scale of the epidemic's impact."
"According to the Chronicon Sampetrinum, 'eleven pits were dug [...], into which around twelve thousand bodies of people were brought in wagons and carts. These were continuously transported, three or four at a time.'"
Researchers have located a possible mass grave from the Black Death near Neuses, Germany, by integrating historical texts with geophysical surveys and sediment analysis. This site may correspond to plague pits described in medieval records, particularly during the 1350 outbreak when approximately 12,000 individuals were buried in Erfurt. The study represents the first systematically identified burial site in Europe linked to plague burials, revealing a large structure filled with disturbed sediments and human bone fragments from the fourteenth century.
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