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

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 – ...

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

Medieval Church, Skeletons Uncovered at University. Story by Miguel A. Melendez • 1mo. U niversity of Gloucestershire acquired a property in 2021 where it planned to build a modern center for ...

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 has helped to create an avatar of the voice and face of Britain's Richard III over 500 years after his death in battle.

The Garden of Death, Hugo Simberg, 1896 Jenni Nurminen / Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a ...

“Head of a Skeleton” is one of the centerpieces of the exhibition “Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light,” running at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki through Jan. 26, 2025. The show ...

The Dance of Death was a popular trope in medieval art. Paintings and woodcuttings would show a version of death — typically a skeleton — visiting people while they go about their routines and ...

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.