Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness. The post Was leprosy a social death sentence during medieval times? appeared first ...

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 ...

Late medieval Europe entered a period marked by climatic fluctuations that weakened agricultural stability and placed growing pressure on the food systems that supported expanding populations. Cooler ...

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, ...