Thursday, April 16, 2020

Melting ice reveals lost viking artefacts on mountain pass

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Image Credit : Antiquity Journal Climate change is leading to the retreat of mountain glaciers. In Norway, hundreds of rare archaeolog...

MÂCON, UN CAS D'ÉCOLE

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La fouille de Mâcon et les recherches en archives éclairent un passé médiéval de la ville jusqu'alors méconnu. Sous la férule d'u...

The Hunt for the Lost Mountain Pass

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Viking Age spear, originally found in one piece in front of the Lendbreen ice patch.  Photo: Vegard Vike, Museum of Cultural History. ...

'Spectacular' artefacts found as Norway ice-patch melts

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A horse snowshoe found during 2019 fieldwork at Lendbreen.  Photograph: Espen Finstad/secretsoftheice.com Discoveries exposed by retr...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Remains of St Eanswythe found in Folkestone?

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The remains were found in the church of St Mary and St Eanswythe  [Image: Mark Hourahane] Recent scientific tests on human remains ke...

Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine

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Thanks to the pandemic, radiocarbon dating and further excavations are on hold. Coal miners in Serbia recently dug up an unexpected sur...

NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS : LES ARCHÉOLOGUES DE L’INRAP MOBILISÉS

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À l’occasion du premier anniversaire de l’incendie, le documentaire « Sauver Notre-Dame » est diffusé, mardi 14 avril, sur France 2. L’In...

Like Lego: rare photo shows Stonehenge construction technique

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The uprights and lintels of Stonehenge were locked together by means of a joint more commonly used in woodwork – the mortise and tenon. P...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Chislehurst Caves – The 35km Cave City in London

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Chislehurst Caves art Sculpture – Credit : barclakj Chislehurst Caves is an extensive complex of subterranean tunnels of uncertain orig...

Seafood full of poison in the Stone Age, because of climate change

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The excavation and the view towards the west in Varanger. During the settlement, the shoreline was approximately 10 meters below the edge...

Who lived near Pommelte, the 'German Stonehenge'?

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The reconstructed ring-shaped sanctuary at Pommelte [Credit: Picture-Alliance/DPA/P. Gercke] Starting in April, an about-4,000-year-o...

50,000-year-old string found at France Neanderthal site

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A scanning electron micrograph of the cord fragment showed the twisted fibres PA MEDIA A piece of 50,000-year-old string - the oldes...

Stunning archaeological find reveals London 3,000 years older than previously thought

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Stock image of archaelogists working in East London (Image: GETTY) An archaeological find just 15 metres outside the boundary of the no...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Editor’s pick: 11 fascinating articles on the Normans you can read right now

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Cnut’s invasion of England: setting the scene for the Norman conquest The 1066 battle of Hastings is one of the most famous dates in med...

Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications

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Map showing location of Abri du Maras. (Map by S. Puaud). Neanderthals are often considered as less technologically advanced than moder...

Tie game: Ancient bit of string shows Neanderthal handiwork

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Part of a Neanderthal cord from Abri du Maras, France. Photo / AP It looked like a white splotch on the underside of a Neanderthal ston...

Leap of faith: ancient Britons viewed hares and chickens as gods

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The brown hare was considered too special to eat, as were chickens.  Photograph: Chris Upson/Getty Images/Flickr RF Iron age research...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

New discovery suggests London’s story goes back more than 3,000 years longer than previously thought

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An aerial view of MOLA archaeologists excavating at Principal Place in Shoreditch - the site of the new Amazon HQ  © MOLA The evidenc...

Evidence of Ancient Surgery Unearthed in Greece

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According to a statement released by Adelphi University, researchers led by Anagnostis Agelarakis examined the remains of four women and ...

Mysteries of decorated ostrich eggs revealed

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Two ostrich eggs found in the "Isis tomb", an elite burial at Etruscan Vulci (Italy) BRITISH MUSEUM If you wanted to give a...