In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a monastery, the more it likely cost.

In A Nutshell Medieval Danish cemeteries show no spatial segregation of leprosy or TB sufferers: diseased individuals were buried alongside healthy neighbors Burial location was determined by social ...

Small round pits as lytic lesions indicate the presence of the pathogen in the cancellous bone tissue the vertebral bodies, which leads to the focal destruction of bone. Recent research suggests that ...

(CN) — New archaeological research suggests medieval Danes may have been more open-minded than previously thought. In medieval Denmark, social standing was essential, even in death. Wealthy ...

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a monastery, the more it likely cost. Wealth followed you into the ground. That ...