Growing up in the Middle Ages was no fairy tale. In this video, we explore what life was really like for children during ...

Australian health authorities are urging around 1,200 children in the state of Victoria to be tested for infectious diseases after police charged a childcare worker with dozens of sexual abuse ...

During the removal of tree roots for an ongoing renovation project, workers stumbled upon the skeletal remains of two medieval children in northwestern Poland. One of the burials showed signs of ...

In a September 12 Facebook post translated from Polish, the Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments says it is “without a doubt” that at least one of the children found at the 13th-century ...

Some medieval “vampire children” uncovered in previous excavations were found buried with a padlock attached to the foot, indicating the people feared the dead could spring back to life.

The 17 bodies, including 11 children, found at bottom of medieval well by construction workers show the “real horror” of antisemitic violence, researchers say.

On a terrace overlooking a lake in southern France, a medieval community buried their dead. The deceased were placed in deep pits, their bodies arranged just so. Centuries passed and the cemetery ...

A MEDIEVAL virus that can cause deadly side effects in some children is surging through holiday hotspots, health officials have warned. Almost 1,000 measles cases were reported across 29 European c… ...

Swahili people maintained matrilineal family burial gardens such as this one in Faza, Kenya. Chapurukha Kusimba, 2012 under CC BY-ND 4.0. A new analysis of medieval DNA has revealed that around ...