About a foot under the tombstone, crews discovered the remains of a coffin holding a full skeleton. Aleksandra Pudlo from the ...

A medieval knight's tomb was recently uncovered in Gdańsk, Poland, near the country's oldest wooden church, revealing a ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a medieval knight, buried under a shuttered ice cream parlor in the Polish city of Gdańsk.

Projects in other parts of Europe are also shedding fascinating new light on centuries-old burial sites. An incredible grave in Sweden containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior, long thought to ...

LEWES, ENGLAND—More than 120 sets of human remains were found in a medieval cemetery at the site of the Hospital of St. Nicholas on England’s southern coast. Most of the skele ...

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more.The warrior was, in ...

Here’s how it works. The warrior's grave was found at an early medieval cemetery in the German town of Ingelheim, which was later the site of one of Charlemagne's palaces.

Medieval executioners: “This is how we (don’t) roll” The wheel wasn’t a cutting-edge means of torture and execution, even in the Middle Ages.

A medieval woman warrior found in a Danish grave was no Viking. Analysis of her weapon suggests she was Slavic, likely from a region in Europe that is now Poland.