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As National Geographic reports Venetian archaeologists have discovered ancient mass graves containing more than 1,500 victims on a small island in Italy’s Venetian Lagoon.
“When plague struck the town, everybody sick or showing any suspect symptom were restricted on the island until they recovered or died,” said Luisa Gambaro, an anthropologist of the University of Padua. “We were called to attend the excavations, study the site, and rescue remains and artifacts,” said Vincenzo Gobbo, an archaeologist of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice working with the Archaeological Superintendence of Veneto “In the last three years we collected more than 1,500 corpses and 150 boxes of artifacts,” he added. “We estimate there are still thousands of skeletons buried beneath every meadow in Lazzaretto Vecchi.”