Further excavations revealed approximately 170 earlier burials, the majority of which are provisionally thought to relate to ...

Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.

Hundreds of skeletons were recently uncovered by archaeologists while they were excavating a British university’s property – the discovery was a complete surprise.

However, outside the vaults, archaeologists uncovered about 150 post-medieval burials in the courtyard, and another 170 burials from an earlier period were found even deeper, according to the release.

Allegedly, copies of the Bible were chained to the walls of churches during the Middle Ages so that people could not take them home to read. Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also ...

Almost all of them were run by the Church. Many were monastery infirmaries ... was expected to have a doctor and surgeon. In the Middle Ages the Islamic world was far ahead in terms of hospital ...