The first Westminster Bridge as painted by Canaletto in 1746

Thames River Bones Show 4,000 Years of Prehistoric Human Sacrifice

Centuries of bone discoveries from the River Thames now tell a darker story than previously imagined. Recent scientific analysis of hundreds of human remains pulled from Britain’s most famous waterway reveals deliberate patterns stretching back thousands of years, long before Roman legions ever set foot on British soil. Radiocarbon dating has transformed scattered skeletal fragments