The construction was called to a stop the moment they found the bones.

The work crew was preparing a building site along one of London's many ancient streets

when they uncovered what appeared to be a body, or at least the remains of one.

It was clearly old, given that nothing but bones could be seen beneath the dirt, so a

team of archaeologists was brought in to preserve and study the remains.

In the end, they determined that the bones belonged to a teenage girl who had lived in

London over 1600 years ago.

A Roman Girl

It's not the last time something like that has happened in the city.

During some development work near Spittelfield's market in the 1990s, a work crew uncovered

what turned out to be an entire Roman cemetery.

Among the finds was a perfectly preserved lead coffin, its lid covered in beautiful artwork

that had been hammered right into the surface, still visible all these centuries later.

And that's the way history tends to work.

Time will bury it beneath new and current events, but if we dig deep enough and brush away

the soil, we can come face to face with it all over again.

The past never truly goes away after all.

It's there, waiting to be discovered, so that we can study it and relearn the stories

it contains.

Often times though, the things that leave the deepest marks tend to be the most tragic

and painful.

Events that rattled people to their core and left the shadow on the history of a place

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