For several years, Cambridge University’s archaeology department has partnered with the local charity Cambridge Past, Present ...
And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...
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 ...
The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...
Falling ill with leprosy or tuberculosis wasn’t a death sentence for your social status in medieval Denmark, researchers have ...
Medieval Christian burials in Denmark were likely more influenced by money than supposed outward markers of sin, according to new research.
Archaeologists initially believed a stone slab at the northern end of the pit to be a grave.