Scientists and historians finally know why hundreds of human bones are still being pulled from the bottom of the River Thames ...

Hundreds of human bones have emerged from the River Thames in the last two centuries, most of them prehistoric.

Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

These bloody words were written by 19th-Century antiquarian H.S. Cuming in On the discovery of Celtic crania in the vicinity ...

Countless human bones have been found at the bottom of the River Thames in England, and some of them have been dated back to ...

All of the images in this article are by Lara Maiklem ... Her book, Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames, will be published in August. Lara appears on a special edition of Time ...

These bloody words were written by 19th-Century antiquarian H.S. Cuming in On the discovery of Celtic crania in the vicinity ...