Archaeologists in France have unearthed Renaissance-era gallows along with the remains of dozens of people executed there, per Ancient Origins. The grim discovery was made in Grenoble, underneath the ...

In 1379, a group of pigs in the village of Saint-Marcel-lès-Jussey in eastern France killed a swineherd’s child. In 1386, a ...

Archaeologists excavating in France discovered a 16 th-century public gallows. Excavations also revealed 10 mass burial pits associated with the gallows. Historical construction records give details ...

For centuries, the quiet hill near the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt appeared nothing more than an open field where cattle grazed peacefully. Beneath that calm surface, however, a darker story ...