900-year-old burials of Denmark's early Christians discovered in medieval cemetery

A close-up of skulls in a grave.

While excavating a medieval Christian cemetery in the center of a Danish city, researchers unearthed 77 skeletons of people who were buried there about 900 years ago.

The excavations at the site of Sankt Olufs Kirke — Danish for St. Olaf's Church — were conducted ahead of construction work at the site, near the center of the city of Aarhus on Denmark's Jutland Peninsula.