Medieval hospital ruins were recently found beneath a street in York, England, during sinkhole repairs, uncovering part of the historic St. Leonard's Hospital complex.

Construction workers fixing a sinkhole in York, England, discovered a massive Medieval hospital which was built between the 12th and 13th centuries. The structure encompassed roughly 0.2 miles.

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former lover, a priest, nearly 700 years ago.

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 murder: Records suggest vengeful noblewoman had priest assassinated in 688-year-old cold case by University of Cambridge edited by Sadie Harley , reviewed by Robert Egan ...