Workers recently stumbled across a grisly gravesite near a historic cathedral in Chelm, Poland. While removing tree roots for an ongoing garden renovation project at the Palace of the Uniate Bishops, ...

MERSIN, TURKEY—Hurriyet Daily News reports that recent excavations at the site of Kelenderis, a 2,800-year-old city located on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, have uncovered a child’s grave and an ...

Stewart T. Monti’s poetic children’s book brings European folklore and 11th-century adventures to life with heart and charm. Despite it being a children’s book, it is a great method to catch the ...

Workers renovating a fence wall near a historic Cathedral in Poland have found the remains of two medieval children, one of whom shows signs of “vampire burial”. Belief in vampirism was prevalent in ...

Swahili people maintained matrilineal family burial gardens such as this one in Faza, Kenya. Chapurukha Kusimba, 2012 under CC BY-ND 4.0 A new analysis of medieval DNA has revealed that around the ...

A Norwegian man recently came forward to disclose that he had found several medieval coins as a child and hid them for six decades – until now. Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes told Møre og Romsdal County ...