Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Written records had indicated that about 12,000 people were buried in large pits outside the city of Erfurt, but their exact ...

For people living in the Middle Ages, death was not the end but the beginning of a spiritual journey. Medieval Christians ...

A remarkable discovery in a Swedish bog revealed the well-preserved remains of a medieval man who had been dead for centuries. The body, still clothed and pinned to the ground with wooden poles, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph of the fresco Trionfo della Morte, taken at its original location in the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa. The fresco, ...