A Roman skull showing clear signs of cancer from Holborn Viaduct (Wellcome Images/Museum of London)
See a slideshow of skeletons from the exhibition.
Just like a modern-day crime scene investigator, archaeologists can tell a lot about a person from their remains.
A new London exhibition gives visitors a chance to see for themselves the traces left by disease and diet on 26 skeletons recovered from beneath London.
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From cancer-afflicted inhabitants of Roman Londinium to an 18th-century church official with signs of gluttony in his bones, the skeletons were drawn from more than 17,000 held by the Museum of London.
See a slideshow of skeletons from the exhibition.
The Skeletons exhibition is at the Wellcome Collection, London, until 28 September 2008.
