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 ...

Before the skeleton was unearthed, he wrote, of the tombstone, "Made of limestone, a plate with the image of a knight, it is so far the most medieval archaeological find of this season.

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] ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...