Skeletons, black death and migration: the discovery of thousands of skeletons in the main square of Belgium’s Sint Truiden ignited the largest DNA study in the world for one single cemetery – ...

Not far from one of Milan’s last remaining medieval gates is a tiny shop door, sandwiched between shuttered storefronts.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But who knew that books could kill?

Further excavations revealed approximately 170 earlier burials, the majority of which are provisionally thought to relate to the medieval church, St. Aldate's Church, that stood there before it ...

Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.

Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.

When the researchers applied those constraints to the medieval skeletons, they extrapolated that between 9 and 14 percent of pre-industrial Britons likely had cancer—an estimate a full ten times ...

State-of-the-art technology re-creates voice of medieval monarch Unlike the upper-class tones of his modern successors, the re-created king’s voice has a more common and earthy twang.

Many renowned artists took inspiration from such morbidity. For example, van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton, which depicts a skeleton with a cigarette between its teeth, lends a casualness to death.

Some art historians have said that “Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette” was merely van Gogh, still an art student at the time, fooling around with an anatomy exercise.

Skeletons, it seems, have gone soft. No longer content to loom over you from a height of 12 feet, the latest en vogue Halloween collectibles are skewing more farcical than fearsome. A skeleton ...

The skeleton found at the medieval abbey. Photo from Hungary’s National Institute of Archaeology Tomajmonostora is a village in eastern Hungary and roughly a 100-mile drive east from Budapest.