More than 1200 skeletons discovered after excavations Our Lady cemetery in Bruges abyss

In May last year, for example, a burial vault with frescoes from the fourteenth century was uncovered. In total, archaeologists discovered three, one of which can be seen in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk.

There are also the three intact anthropomorphic tombs, which are tombs with the shape of a human outline. Now a two-year study follows in which the archaeologists want to find out more about the life and health of the Bruggeling, because people have been buried here for no less than 9 centuries.