In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...

Archaeologists in Germany recently revealed a secret tunnel from the Middle Ages — a tunnel hidden within a much older burial ...

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the ...

The weapons in our graves were as much as an expression of loss and grief, as they were a physical statement about strength ...

German archaeologists unearthed a medieval tunnel system beneath a 5,000-year-old Neolithic burial site near Reinstedt. The ...

The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...

Sunderland Point in Lancashire is home to one of the most intriguing and mysterious graves in Britain. It remains a popular pilgrimage site for visitors who leave flowers on the headstone ...

A hill on the west Cumbrian coast could be the long-sought burial mound of Ivarr the Boneless, one of the most powerful ...

Archaeologists in Germany recently revealed a secret tunnel from the Middle Ages — a tunnel hidden within a much older burial ...

Denmark has a lot of Viking history, and you can see it in many places. Old forts, rune stones, and burial mounds tell stories of warriors, leaders, a.

A newly discovered Viking grave with severed skulls and rope-bound corpses has unleashed a bizarre mystery that has stunned historians. A giant with a hole in his head. Six severed skulls. Rope-bound ...

The mass grave was uncovered during a University of Cambridge training excavation at Wandlebury, an Iron Age hillfort just south of the city. The burial pit itself measured roughly four meters by one ...