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Makes you wonder where all those skeletons came from...
I don't know about the Sedlec Ossuary, but in many parts of Europe, the plagues left so many dead people that nobody could find enough space put all the bodies. Often they'd stack coffin after coffin in the same grave site with the uppermost coffins being as little as 6 inches under the surface. Eventually the ground in graveyards would become unstable and prone to collapse, toppling grave markers and exposing diseased rotting carcasses. When the graveyards became too full to pack any more corpses in them, they'd excavate the whole place and fill a cave or church vault with the resulting charnel, creating catacombs, ossuaries and charnel houses. Then they'd be free to start afresh, loading up the graveyards with even more corpses...
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I don't know about the Sedlec Ossuary, but in many parts of Europe, the plagues left so many dead people that nobody could find enough space put all the bodies. Often they'd stack coffin after coffin in the same grave site with the uppermost coffins being as little as 6 inches under the surface. Eventually the ground in graveyards would become unstable and prone to collapse, toppling grave markers and exposing diseased rotting carcasses. When the graveyards became too full to pack any more corpses in them, they'd excavate the whole place and fill a cave or church vault with the resulting charnel, creating catacombs, ossuaries and charnel houses. Then they'd be free to start afresh, loading up the graveyards with even more corpses...

 

See also:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

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