A skull discovered at Ebenezer Chapel, London
The London human remains collections includes 740 individuals who lived in London over the last 5,000 years.
The remains in the collection, cared for in the museum, were excavated in the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries.
Museum scientists have uncovered fascinating insights into lives and deaths of the people that once lived in the capital, from the Romans to the Victorians.
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Find out where in London individuals remains were found, what era they lived in and what we know about their lives from their bones.
Funding
The Human Remains Digitisation Project was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust.
Palaeontology collections
- Fossil bird collection
- Fossil mammal collection
- Fossil amphibian collection
- Fossil fish collection
- Lepidosaur collection
- Pterosaur collection
- Crocodylomorph and early archosaur collections
- Dinosaur collection
- Marine reptiles collection
- Fossil sponge collection
- Fossil bryozoan collection
- Fossil mollusc collection
- Fossil echinoderm collection
- Fossil cephalopod collection
- Brachiopod collection
- Ostracod collection
- Conodont collection
- Foraminifera collection
- Radiolarian collection
- Palynology collection
- Nannofossil collection
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Life in the bones of Londoners
Human remains from prehistoric to Victorian times reveal how people lived and died in the city.
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CollectionsA history of burial in London
How has London buried its dead over the past 5,000 years?
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CollectionsSkeletons reveal their secrets
Bone detectives at the Museum are uncovering the secrets of life and death in London over 5,000 years.
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Analysing the bones: what can a skeleton tell you?
How scrutinising a person's bones and teeth can disclose who they were, how they lived and even how they died.
