Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study of 939 skeletons finds medieval Danes did not exclude leprosy or TB sufferers from high-status graves. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / ...

In medieval Denmark, people could pay for more prestigious graves closer to the church — a sign of wealth and status. But when researchers examined hundreds of skeletons, they discovered something ...

Russian archaeologists say they have pinpointed a long-lost medieval burial ground, turning a patch of ordinary landscape into a rare window on the region’s early urban and religious history. The ...

The bones of the horse and riders have mostly eroded away in the region's acidic, sandy soils, leaving only "sand silhouettes" behind. Oxford Cotswold Archaeology Archaeologists have discovered a ...

Leprosy didn't prevent rich medieval families from being buried in the most prestigious graves, reveals new research. Wealthy Danes showed off their affluence even in death by being laid to rest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wealthy individuals often purchased plots as close to their church as possible as a sign of social status. Wealth confers ...

Early Medieval graves in Europe were reopened as part of widespread burial traditions -- not only by grave robbers, as experts previously thought. Hundreds of graves dating from the fifth century to ...

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a monastery, the more it likely cost. Wealth followed you into the ground. That ...