While excavating a cemetery full of medieval knights in Spain, archaeologists discovered the remains of a middle-aged man with two stab wounds on his head and a bashed-in knee, suggesting he died in battle. But when they took a closer look at the skeleton, they were shocked by his unusually long and narrow head, which they suspect resulted from a genetic condition that was typically fatal in childhood.
"I was very surprised," Carme Rissech, a biological anthropologist at the University of Rovira i Virgili in Spain, told Live Science in an email. "I had never seen a skull like this before, especially not one belonging to a knight."
