Outside a hospital in medieval Germany, people lovingly buried their deceased, sometimes placing “death crowns” in the grave. But as the centuries passed, the cemetery fell into obscurity. It was ...

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More than 1,000 QR-coded stickers were mysteriously put on gravestones and wooden crosses at three cemeteries in Germany. When scanned, the codes reveal just the name of the deceased buried in the ...

Two ancient urns were discovered at the same cemetery in 1956 and 1967, officials said. Photo by the City of Espelkamp/P. Metzner Archaeologists are investigating a 3,000-year-old gravesite discovered ...

Archaeologists unearthed a 300-year-old hospital graveyard in Karlsruhe-Durlach with over 160 skeletons and ‘death crowns.’ Photo from Stuttgart Regional Council, Damminger Outside a hospital in ...