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 ...
An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness. The post ...
Falling ill with leprosy or tuberculosis wasn’t a death sentence for your social status in medieval Denmark, researchers have ...
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 ...
Researchers have unearthed strong evidence of thousands of Black Death victims in a first-of-its-kind mass grave at a medieval village outside Germany. The find marks the first systematically ...
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