The site in Nuremberg, Germany, contains the bodies of at least 1,000 people who died of the bubonic plague, which killed up to 60 per cent of Europe's population.

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 ...

Amid excavations preceding the construction of a retirement home at Germany's Nuremberg, archaeologists have made a significant discovery and found over 1,500 skeletons of plague victims in mass ...