An 800-year-old Norse saga makes a glancing mention of a dead man tossed in a drinking well after a raid on a castle in ...

The remains of a man thrown in a well about eight centuries ago. Image: Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet In a frankly unbelievable turn of events, a team of archaeologists in Norway have ...

Researchers from Norway used ancient DNA to corroborate a story from the Sverris Saga, where a man’s body was thrown into a well. Genetic analysis reveals what the man might have looked like and ...

In the case of the body thrown down the well, researchers got lucky in that regard. Scientists from several Scandinavian universities have identified human remains found in a well at the ...

A south-central Kentucky manaccused of killing his wife and then hiding her body in a well has pleaded not guilty to murder. CBS affiliate WKYT-TV reports that 29-year-old Joseph A. Jones entered ...

It’s not possible to say with certainty how the man died. Researchers think he was probably dead before he was thrown in the well because of injuries to the skull — which also squares with the ...