Thursday, December 06, 2018

Stonehenge tunnel: The background to the row

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Will tunnel destroy secrets of Stonehenge? Stonehenge is one of the UK's most popular tourist attractions, drawing 1.5m visitors vi...

First ancient DNA from mainland Finland reveals origins of Siberian ancestry in region

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New study shows that the genetic makeup of northern Europe traces back to migrations from Siberia that began at least 3,500 years ago and...

Burial sites from 5th and 6th centuries yield unexpected treasures

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Some of the artefacts discovered during excavations in Lincolnshire.  Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA Archaeologists have uncovered lavis...

Archeologists find Viking sword in southern Turkey

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Turkish archeologists uncover Viking sword from 9th-10th century in ancient city of Patara Searching through the ancient city of Patara...

Lincolnshire Anglo-Saxon cemetery burials unearthed

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Experts said a "significant proportion of very lavish burials" belonged to women Burials of richly-dressed women interred wit...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Viking city: excavation reveals urban pioneers not violent raiders

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Mould carved from soapstone for making ingots and and an axe amulet, both discovered at Ribe. Photograph: Museum of Southwestern Jutlan...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

How Industrial-Scale Tar Production Powered the Viking Age

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“Viking Ships Before a Rocky Coast,” by Michael Zeno Diemer (1911) Image: Wikimedia Vikings acquired the capacity to produce tar at...

The secret of Viking success? A good coat of tar…

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Industrial pits led to waterproofed ships for epic pillaging raids A replica Viking longboat in the Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Norse World goes live!

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And the Norse World resource goes live! Today,  on 7 November  the research infrastructure Norse World is being released with free acce...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

AU CŒUR DE MÂCON, UNE NÉCROPOLE GALLO-ROMAINE

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Cette fouille a permis de mettre au jour les vestiges de la nécropole dite « des Cordiers », datée de la période antique (Ier-VIe siècles...

Pompeii: Vesuvius eruption may have been later than thought

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Pompeii was famously destroyed on 24 August in 79 AD - or was it? GETTY IMAGES Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered an inscription...

Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought

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Our visions of Pompeii's destruction just got a little more gruesome. Giorgio Sommer/Public Domain For nearly two millennia, the ...

Archaeologists uncover rare Celtic remains

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A bronze clothes pin and ceramic object typically found in the 1st century BC. (Kanton Luzern) Archaeologists from canton Lucerne hav...

Do Canadian Carvings Depict Vikings? Removing Mammal Fat May Tell

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Credit: Shutterstock Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. Bu...

Extraordinary Viking Age Thor’s Hammer Amulet Discovered in Iceland

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Photo: Fornleifastofnun Íslands/The Institute of Archaeology, Iceland A sandstone Thor’s hammer amulet has been found at the Viking-era...

Byzantine Tower In Istanbul Collapses

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Credit: Hurriyet Daily News A Byzantine tower in the centre of modern Istanbul [Constantinople] has collapsed while deep cracks have al...

Archaeological find in Þjórsárdalur: Viking Age farm destroyed by 1104 Hekla eruption

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STÖNG FARM The best known Viking Age farm to be abandoned in the catastrophic  1104 eruption. Photo/Thomas Romst A recent archeologic...

Archaeologists discover Thor's Hammer amulet at previously unexplored site in S. Iceland

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THOR'S HAMMER The small amulet was carved out of sandstone.  Photo/Fornleifastofnun Íslands Most major archeological finds in Ice...

World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea

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Archaeologists say the 23-metre vessel has lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years Archaeologists have found what they believe to be...

A14 road workers find woolly mammoth bones

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The remains are thought to date back to the last Ice Age Road workers building a new bypass have unearthed the Ice Age remains of a woo...