The recent story of a 13-year-old girl who was buried face down in a medieval grave in Italy has led us to look into what unusual things happen to the dead in the Middle Ages. From piles of bones to embalmed hearts, with stories about mass graves and sleeping for hundreds of years, here is our top 10 list of strange things done with the medieval dead.
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Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: a Viking Murder Mystery
The embalmed heart of Richard the Lionheart (1199 A.D.): a biological and anthropological analysis
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The Culture of Death in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy
The Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers and its Latin Source
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