Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Assembly Project awarded £850,000 to study Vikings and Early Medieval Europe

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Over £850,000 has been made by medieval scholars from the Universities of Durham, Oslo and Vienna and the University of the Highlands and Is...

Oldest Roman coin in Britain discovered on museum shelf

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The oldest Roman coin in Britain has been discovered after sitting on a shelf for a decade. The silver denarius Roman Republic coin dating f...

The Roman Army Knife: Or how the ingenuity of the Swiss was beaten by 1,800 years

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The world's first Swiss Army knife' has been revealed - made 1,800 years before its modern counterpart. An intricately designed Roma...

Sweden celebrates the 800th birthday of Birger jarl

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A jubilee celebration is being held for the 800th anniversary of the birth of Birger jarl, one of Sweden' most important medieval states...

Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution

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JUST suppose that Darwin's ideas were only a part of the story of evolution. Suppose that a process he never wrote about, and never even...

Silver coin dating to 211 BC is oldest piece of Roman money ever found in Britain

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A 2,221-year-old silver coin dug up as part of a hoard is the oldest piece of Roman money ever found in Britain. Dating from 211 BC and foun...

Archaeologists unearth Iron Age settlement in Kent

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The remains of an Iron Age settlement have been unearthed by archaeologists working along the route of a new £1.3m water pipeline in Kent. E...

Theatregoers in Shakespeare's day 'enjoyed peaches, figs and oysters'

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Tudor theatregoers enjoyed walnuts, peaches and figs and even the odd oyster, according to the most detailed ever study of a playhouse from ...

Did Leonardo paint himself as "Mona Lisa"?

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The legend of Leonardo da Vinci is shrouded in mystery: How did he die? Are the remains buried in a French chateau really those of the Renai...

Stanford Students Dig Into Archeological Site

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This summer, in the far reaches of Northern England, an international excavation team gathered at the small town of Binchester, just south o...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Viking settlement unearthed by OPW

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DUBLIN’S NORTHSIDE is revealing its own Viking past with the first evidence of 11th-century Dubliners choosing to settle on the north shore ...

Burst water main floods city excavation

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GALLONS of water poured into the historic Beverley Gate excavation after a water main burst in Hull city centre. The problem left businesses...

Last Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago

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The paper, by Professor Joao Zilhao and colleagues, builds on his earlier research which proposed that, south of the Cantabro-Pyrenean mount...

Up Helly Aa in pictures: Viking festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands

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Members of the Viking Jarl Squad march with burning torches during the annual Up Helly Aa Festival, Lerwick, Shetland Islands. Up Helly Aa c...

Rosslyn Chapel scanned in 3D

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The famous Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland has been photographed in intricate detail using cutting edge digital technology. The project to captur...

Delving into the history of 'things'

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Orkney and Shetland are set to become research sites for a major project looking at the way Viking communities governed themselves and stren...

Penises and caustic soda: the case of the Cambridge antiquities

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The antiquities gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge reopens to the public on Saturday – with some fascinating stories In the Gree...

Could there be another gold hoard near Tamworth?

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FIFTY pieces of gold have been found just 10 miles from where the Staffordshire hoard was discovered – but their origins may remain forever ...

Viking Society Student Conference 2010

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Viking Society Student Conference 2010 Published by Chris Abram on January 28, 2010 12:42 pm under Conferences The Viking Society is holding...

Ambassador or slave? East Asian skeleton discovered in Vagnari Roman Cemetery

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A team of researchers announced a surprising discovery during a scholarly presentation in Toronto last Friday. The research team, based at M...