Archaeologists to dig in search of skeletons at Waterloo battlefield

Further excavation of burial pit hoped to help explain what happened to remains of thousands killed in 1815 clash

The fate of those killed in the notoriously bloody Battle of Waterloo has long been the subject of macabre speculation. Now, a team of archaeologists will seek to provide some answers by digging at the site where it took place in Belgium.

About 20,000 men died in the June 1815 battle that took place in the province of Walloon Brabant. In 2022, an excavation at the site of a former field hospital at Mont-Saint-Jean farm discovered horses that had been put down, buried alongside a human skeleton.