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 ...

Archaeologists discover over 1,500 skeletons at construction site in Germany’s Nuremberg. This is likely to be the largest mass burial of plague victims ever found in Europe.