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 ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered a 16th century execution ground where a 450-year-old gallows once stood above mass graves filled with the remains of people condemned by royal justice. The ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered the remains of a 16th-century gallows where bodies of the condemned were displayed after they were hanged. The corpses of the men — and a few women — were then ...