Beneath Gloucester’s Former Debenhams, 317 Skeletons Are Rewriting What We Know About The City

Despite spending most of your life digging around in the dust and dirt, archaeology can be a fascinating career. Each hard-won discovery brings humanity closer to understanding the life and times of communities that are millennia old.

Just recently, in fact, an excavation of archaeologists working at the site of an abandoned UK department store being remodeled into a university campus unearthed hundreds of ancient skeletons, shedding more light on the area’s rich and storied history.