In medieval Denmark, people could pay for more prestigious graves closer to the church — a sign of wealth and status. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers renovating a fence wall near a historic Cathedral in Poland have found the remains of two medieval children, one of whom ...

Workers recently stumbled across a grisly gravesite near a historic cathedral in Chelm, Poland. While removing tree roots for an ongoing garden renovation project at the Palace of the Uniate Bishops, ...

Experts have discovered an unusual medieval burial that shows evidence of "anti-vampire" measures being taken. The bizarre archaeological discovery was made at a site on Góra Chełmska, a ridge near ...

(CNN) — When the brick coffin of a young woman from medieval Italy was opened after its discovery in 2010, two peculiar things stood out to the researchers: There was a perfect hole in the frontal ...

Archaeologists excavated a 900-year-old burial mound and found evidence of the graves being reopened by ‘looters,’ photos show. Photo from S. Wadyl via Wadyl, Szczepanik, Fetner, Jaskulska and ...

Russian archaeologists say they have pinpointed a long-lost medieval burial ground, turning a patch of ordinary landscape into a rare window on the region’s early urban and religious history. The ...

Researchers have unearthed strong evidence of thousands of Black Death victims in a first-of-its-kind mass grave at a medieval village outside Germany. The find marks the first systematically ...

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In northern Poland sits an earthen mound that is not what it seems. The gentle sloping hill hides a collection of 900-year-old burials, traces of long-ago “looting” and the treasures left behind.