Archaeologists

archaeologists: More often than not, they stay there, but work on a new railway line under the British capital is bringing centuries of that buried history to light, according to Times Colonist. One afternoon this week, archaeologists were unearthing newly discovered bones in a pit beside Liverpool Street rail and subway station, while living city-dwellers scuttled by, oblivious, a few feet away. The remains belong to a few of the 20,000 people interred in a burial ground established in the 16th century and LONDON - Jewelry, pieces of ships, medieval ice skates, centuries-old skulls some fascinating pieces of London's history aren't in museums, but underground. The 118-kilometre 73-mile Crossrail line is Britain's biggest construction project and the largest archaeological dig in London for decades. In the city's busy business core, archaeologists have struck pay dirt, uncovering everything from a chunk of Roman road to dozens of 2,000-year-old horseshoes, some golden 16th-century bling and the bones of long-dead Londoners. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.