Today's kids might grumble about being asked to empty the dishwasher or clean up the yard, but they get off lightly when compared to ordinary medieval children. In those times, every member of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers renovating a fence wall near a historic Cathedral in Poland have found the remains of two medieval children, one of whom ...

Festivals with elements of role reversal were a recurring feature of the medieval world, as seen in cases like the Lord of Misrule, in which an ordinary member of the public was treated as a lord ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skeletal remains of child buried in vampire grave Workers recently stumbled across a grisly gravesite near a historic cathedral in ...

The remains of a hard-boiled egg were found inside a medieval grave in Germany in 2014, officials said. Archaeologists are still mystified by the discovery. Photo from the Bavarian State Office for ...

The graves were found during renovations of a wall near a medieval worship space. Screengrab from Lubelski Wojewódzki Konserwator Zabytków's Facebook post Long before our understanding of disease, ...

Learn how ancient DNA shows that children in medieval Sweden often shared graves with adults of the same sex rather than close biological relatives. An infant girl buried in a Swedish churchyard ...