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Workers stumbled upon human bones buried in the walls of Holden Chapel while working on renovations of the chapel's basement, college officials said yesterday. Harvard archaeologists will likely get the go-ahead to begin excavating the remains tomorrow...
...Mandryk said she soon found that there was probably nothing sinister behind the bones, which are currently lodged in the chapel basement's walls...
Sexton researched the building's history and discovered that it wasn't always a chapel. Between 1782 and 1850, part of the basement was used as an anatomy and dissection lecture hall for the Medical School...
...remarkable find has brought with it some logistical problems. The renovations of the chapel basement--which will create a classroom and modify rehearsal space for choral groups, among other things--have been stalled since the discovery. And there's no telling when workers will be able to start again...
Workers stumbled upon human bones buried in the walls while working on renovations of the chapel's basement, college officials said yesterday. Harvard archaeologists will likely get the go-ahead to begin excavating the remains tomorrow...