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3,000 graves reveal Lisbon quake’s brutal past
In a 18th century Lisbon mass grave at a 17th century convent, forensic experts and historians confirm 3,000 victims died in the 1755 earthquake, fire and tsunami. They pieced together trauma from crushed skulls to charred bones, cannibalism hints, and evidence of slave trade era life.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Miguel Telles Antunes
Academy of Sciences Museum
Europe
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Telles Antunes
Academy of Sciences
C.S.I
Joao Luis Cardoso
Open University
Cristiana Pereira
Lisbon University
Yugoslavia
Brazil
Telles Antaries