From under a parking lot in the center of Berlin, a team of archaeologists unearthed ancient human skeletons of nearly 4,000 forgotten dead from a bygone church cemetery paved over by a former Communist regime. In that time, scientists plumbed information from inside bones — some older than 1160 — and in between ancient teeth. They made startling discoveries, including that the city was inhabited nearly a century earlier than believed. But bones hold only so many secrets. They will rest in state in a museum, Petri Berlin, at the same place where they had been ignominiously blacktopped over.

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Persons: Petri Berlin Organizations: Communist Locations: Berlin