“The most terrible of all the ministers of death” may have started afflicting humans in the 1500s, altering our understanding of the disease.
CHR Comment: The mummies are located at the Dominican Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Scattered Bones Found Under Church Floor in Wales
CHR Comment: Goronwy Tudor had relations to Henry VIII. Conservationists found bones under the tomb while renovating the church. Crypt burials under the floors of churches were common in the medieval era.
Source: Scattered Bones Found Under Church Floor in Wales – Archaeology Magazine
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