Like an episode of "Bones," the mangled skeleton of a medieval teenager was found when a 215-year-old birch tree uprooted during a storm in Ireland. Here's a look at what archaeologists found at ...

Two days later, the team found the complete skeleton of the medieval knight. He was buried about five inches under the tombstone, researchers said on social media. He appears to have been about 40 ...

Just outside of the Medieval church of the Ostrów Lednicki stronghold in Poland, archaeologists from the Museum of the First Piast at Lednica have unearthed the strange burial of a giantess. The ...

This skeleton offers something more than a clinical case study. It challenges long-standing assumptions about how medieval people treated those who were visibly and permanently injured.

They found that the boy died during the medieval period, between A.D. 1030 and 1200. [See Photos of Medieval Skeleton Entangled in Tree Roots] ...

Digging History Medieval skeleton discovered in tree suffered violent death, experts say By James Rogers Fox News Published September 16, 2015 12:15am EDT | Updated May 2, 2016 3:52pm EDT ...

By studying the skeleton of a medieval pilgrim discovered in a leprosy hospital cemetery, researchers have been able to genotype the disease, according to a new study.

Archaeologists in Germany uncovered the remains of a medieval man with a “sophisticated” centuries-old iron prosthetic hand. The complete skeleton of a middle-aged man at the time of his death ...

He was shorter than the average man in medieval northern Italy by about 11cm (4.3 inches). Despite his small stature, he sported an extra thoracic vertebra and an extra rib on each side.

The centuries-old complete skeleton of a medieval knight was found under the former site of a famous ice cream shop in Poland, researchers said. The discovery was made on a small plot in Gdańsk ...

By studying the skeleton of this medieval pilgrim, researchers have been able to genotype the disease, according to a study published Thursday in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. They ...