History is full of stories about curses spoken by prisoners, either rightfully or wrongfully convicted, on the way to their execution. The hexes were a prisoner’s supernatural retribution for perceived wrongs that the court dealt them. This cosmic vengeance… Read More ›
Archaeologists overseeing construction at Durham University’s Palace Green Library discovered two mass graves in November of 2013. Durham University archaeologists didn’t know it at the time but these skeletal remains would solve a mystery that dates back to 1650. On… Read More ›
The Battle of Towton took place on Palm Sunday in 1461 and was one of the grisliest battles of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). That conflict was so bloody that it’s estimated that tens of thousands of soldiers were massacred. In… Read More ›
The Visby skeletal collection at the Fornsalen Museum contains the remains of 1185 people who died at the Battle of Visby in 1361 and is the largest battlefield skeletal collection in Europe. Anthropologists from all over the world come to examine these… Read More ›
Medieval mass grave unearthed at Uffizi Gallery in Italy. It’s thought to contain 60 plague victims
On January 10th, the Journal of Archaeological Science published a study, Headhunting and amphitheatre combat in Roman London, England: new evidence from the Walbrook Valley, written by Rebecca Redfern and Heather Bonney. In this article the authors discuss their research… Read More ›
The Siberian Times reports that archaeologists have been excavating a Bronze Age necropolis, made up of about 600 tombs, in Staryi Tartas village of the Novosibirsk region (map) in Russia. Researchers were able identify these graves as belonging to the… Read More ›
Siberian archaeologists excavating in the Novosibirsk region (map) of Russia have found a necropolis containing about 600 graves believed to belong to the Andronovo culture. In this necropolis are dozens of burials containing the skeletal remains of couples embracing each other, estimated… Read More ›
Durham university archaeologists are in the process of excavating the bodies from a centuries old mass grave at the city’s World Heritage Site. In November, during renovation work at the University’s Palace Green Library, workers initially found the remains of… Read More ›
Forensic workers will suspend exhumations during the winter months at a mass grave in near Tomasica in Bosnia, and will resume in the spring. Investigators believe it is the largest mass grave found so far from the 1992-95 war, with… Read More ›
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