Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-six skeletons were found with their hands tied behind their backs at the site in Buckingham [Network Archaeology] More than ...

Public executions were central to medieval London’s culture, drawing massive crowds who treated death like entertainment.

Hanging in the Middle Ages often didn’t end with death. Bodies were placed in iron cages called gibbeted and left to rot in ...

The remains of nearly 100 bodies have been discovered at an ancient cemetery, which archaeologists believe was the site of an extensive execution operation. Nearly 100 bodies, mainly adult males, were ...