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, ...
Archaeologists in Poland were flabbergasted after discovering the remains of alleged “vampire children,” one of which was decapitated to allegedly prevent them from rising from the grave. “The burial ...
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 ...
They endured medieval-like conditions, were kept in a dungeon, and treated “worse than prisoners of war,” prosecutors said of the five adopted children of Charles and Matthew Edmondson. The Ohio ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...