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In 897 AD, the Catholic Church staged a disturbing event that still shocks historians. Pope Stephen VI demanded that the body of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, be dug up and placed on trial in Rome.

Plenty of odd things have been put on trial—animals, statues, a washerwoman's vat—but there's only one occasion in history that a dead body has gone before a papal court. The Cadaver Synod (Synodus ...

Known as the 'Cadaver Synod,' the posthumous trial of Pope Formosus resulted from the chaos of the ninth century as factions battled for control of the church. From the GraveFrench painter Jean-Paul ...

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Modern science reveals dinosaurs were more intelligent than previously thought, with Troodon formosus standing out as an exceptional thinker. This small predator possessed a large brain, advanced ...