The woman’s skeleton was found lying tightly curled, as though in pain, in the foundations of a long-vanished medieval York church.

Thursday, 9 February 2023 12:44

By Stephen Lewis

Archaeologists say when she died more than 500 years ago she was suffering from septic arthritis and advanced venereal syphilis and would have had ‘severe, visible symptoms of infection affecting her entire body, and later ... mental health decline’.

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