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The remains were discovered during an archaeological survey prior to the construction of new residential buildings in the city.
It is always fun when your home has a history behind it.
Thats basically daily life in Xi’an China.
Xi’an (Western Peace), the thousand year old city located in Western China is also known as Chang’an (Long/Eternal/Enduring, (you get the idea) Peace) was the captial of Han Dynasty (206 BC–9AD), Tang Dynasty (618AD–907AD) and many other smaller Kingdoms throughout Chinese history. In modern times, it is quite well known that any residential, commerical, or even transit development has a high chance of digging up some ancient grave, most notebly royal tombs.
It is said that in Xi’an, when you travel through the underground subway, it is very likely that ancient ghosts would stare at you for disturbing their long sleep.
When I was much younger I was talking to someone about ghosts if they were real and he pointed out what you were saying. If ghosts were real there should be places that are swarming with them given the sheer number of people clustered in some of these ancient cities for so long.
Definitely, the number of people have died thoughout history drastically outweight the number of living people today. If ghosts exists, Earth would be very crowded indeed (not to mention all those animals and … dinosaurs).
Yepp, 117 billion estimated total humans born ever and about 8 billion alive today.
That’s still like 6% of people ever are alive right now which is pretty amazing.
In a sense, life is only known to be 94% fatal.
Depends on your definition of fun. In Cologne, for example, you cannot turn over a stone without finding something archeological, aged 1000 or 2000 years. Nice for historians, but HELL for anyone who wants to build something.
Because if you dig your foundations and you find something, you have to stop immediately, report it to the authorities, wait for archeologists to take care of it until they give you a GO again (which can hold construction for a long time), and on top of that, you’ll have to pay the archeologist team, too. And if you “forget” to report it and they find out (not finiding anything is actually suspicious in that town!) they’ll hit you with fines that make the idea of month-long delays and archeologists bills look quite cheap in comparison.
And if everyone knows this, and everyone does it this way, its not really an issue. It is just real estate developers complaining they can make mare and faster profits if these rules did not exist. Because fuck put culture and history amirite?
Its good that not following these rules is so heavily fined that the fines actually do something. This is how fines should work. If its cheaper to eat the fine, companies would just do so and ignore the rule.
I know this is right and important, but I think the bill for the archeological survery should be footed by the government. I’ve read of a case in the papers some time ago where a young couple wanted to build their home and suddenly they had a >50k bill for preserving a Celtic something where their basement should have been.
The bill, and the hotel for the family that can no longer use their home?
Still beats digging your foundations and finding a WW2 bomb.
That is much better than anything historical. The job is usually finished within a few hours, and it’s free.
Hamburg
Property price stonks.
Oh shit, are they ok?
None of them were complaining
Because of the dead thing, right?
“plague” victims
Bring on the reddit-jokes!
Haha, you’re so funny!
It’s called gallows humour. It’s how we got through the last 20,000 years before people discovered they could be offended simply to draw attention to themselves
Thanks internet friend. I learned something today. It’s also called “Black comedy” or “Dark comedy”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
Yes but in America they call it “African-American comedy”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Roughly 1,000 skeletons of plague victims have so far been found in mass graves in the center of the city of Nuremberg, which experts believe may contain a total of more than 1,500 people, according to a press release published Tuesday.
Melanie Langbein, from Nuremberg’s department for heritage conservation, told CNN that eight plague pits were identified, each containing several hundred bodies.
“This means a large number of dead people who needed to be buried in a short time frame without regard to Christian burial practices,” she said.
Langbein told CNN that the 1632-1633 epidemic was worse than those that came before because of the impact of the Thirty Years War, a series of conflicts fought by various European nations from 1618 to 1648.
“We can with statistical means explore the size and demographic of the city with the same tools that a modern census team would with a recent population,” said Decker, including the percentage of children and adults, women and men and general health.
There will also be collaborations with institutions interested in certain aspects of the findings, including analyzing the plague genome and investigating parasite eggs in the soil, she added.
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Well that’s better than the other reason one might find a mass grave in Germany.
Why is that one skeleton so green?
Those skeletons are of a higher level than the other ones. They probably have a higher HP pool and do more dmg
Envy
Shrek
He just puked over all the others…
“Those people were not interred in a regular cemetery although we have designated plague cemeteries in Nuremberg,” said Langbein.
“This means a large number of dead people who needed to be buried in a short time frame without regard to Christian burial practices,” she said.
Because of this, an epidemic such as the plague is “more than likely” the explanation for the mass graves, according to Langbein.
Shouldn’t they wear masks and stuff?
I don’t think these skeletons that spent hundreds of years interred could carry a live virus
Never heard of plague doctors?
Those pictures are metal AF goddamn
