Tomb found during excavation near St. Louis Ikea site

Workers excavating St. Louis land as part of the new Ikea store construction project Thursday unearthed human remains from a 19th-century cemetery.

Homicide detectives were called, but they quickly determined there was nothing suspicious. The discovery isn't expected to delay the store project.

The land next to a grain silo, which the city now owns, was the Rock Springs Cemetery from 1849 to 1855. Hundreds of graves have been moved since the mid-1800s, after a cholera outbreak prompted St. Louis to require that new cemeteries be built outside city limits, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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