Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Possible 1,400-Year-Old Temple Excavated in Eastern England

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RENDLESHAM, ENGLAND—In the eighth century, an English monk and historian known as The Venerable Bede wrote of a king’s village at “Rendlaesh...

Video Shows Fragments Falling from the Dome of Hagia Sophia

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A still from a recently released video shows visitors rushing to take cover as fragments fall from the dome of Hagia Sophia. Credit: Daily M...

1,000-year-old skeleton of noblewoman with hollowed-out skull found buried next to 'husband' in Germany

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The 1,000-year-old noblewoman’s skeleton was found without a face. (Image credit: Jan Woitas/dpa) The skeletal remains of a man and a woman ...

This 3,000-Year-Old Stone Slab Found in Spain Is Upending Ideas About Ancient Gender Roles

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Archaeologists have uncovered an unusual stone slab during excavations at Las Capellanías, a 3,000-year-old funerary complex in southern Spa...

More Than 100 Cultural Landmarks Have Been Destroyed During Gaza Airstrikes, Report Says

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Israel’s repeated airstrikes on Gaza have destroyed more than 100 cultural landmarks and historic sites according to a preliminary report by...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Viking-era graves found in the heart of Gothenburg, Sweden

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A report just published by the Gothenburg City Museum confirms that the graves found in Burgårdsparken this summer date to the Viking era. T...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Forty slaughtered horses mark site of ancient mass sacrifices

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Remains of horses and also some cattle bore evidence of ceremonial killings. Credit: Construyendo Tarteso 2.0 Mass animal sacrifice is somet...

3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Arrow is Discovered at Melting Ice in Norway

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he arrow has a quartzite arrowhead on a birch shaft. (Photo: Espen Finstad/Secrets of the Ice) Climate change is impacting temperatures arou...

Momentous Discovery Shows Neanderthals Could Produce Human-Like Speech

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La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1, one of the Neanderthal skulls scanned for the study. (Eunostos/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Our Neanderthal co...

New guide aims to highlight Newcastle's rich Roman Wall heritage

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Lesser know sections and parts of Hadrian's Wall. Denton West, a section next to the busy A69 at West Denton. A new guide aims to ensure...

Medieval building discovered by archaeologists in Germany

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Archaeologists working at Magdeburg’s Cathedral Square in eastern Germany have uncovered the remains of a large medieval building thought to...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

1,400-year-old temple discovered in England

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Sutton Hoo has been home to some of the most amazing discoveries from Early Medieval England. Now, archaeologists have uncovered the remains...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Newly discovered underwater temple of Aphrodite leaves everyone in wonder and awe

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Cover Image Source: Facebook | Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities History never ceases to amaze us and there is much out there that is stil...

Scandinavia’s Oldest Identified Ship Burial in Trøndelag “Rewrites History”

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In Leka, a municipality in Norway’s Trøndelag county, archaeologists have uncovered Scandinavia’s oldest identified ship burial, dating back...

Oldest Scandinavian Ship-Burial Identified Re-Writes History – Amazing Find That Predates The Viking Age

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Under this mound at Leka in Trøndelag, archaeologists have found a ship grave from before the Viking Age. Credit: Robert Fry /NTNU Science M...
Friday, November 10, 2023

American Vikings?

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For a thousand years, legends claimed that Vikings settled in North America. In my book American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Land...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Viking Bracelet Made 1,000 Years Ago Found in Farmer's Field—'Real Shock'

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The piece of a Viking Age silver bracelet was found in a farmer's field in Innlandet County, Norway, on October 28. It is thought that t...

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(Fernández-Crespo et al. 2023, Scientific Reports) VALLADOLID, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Nature Publishing Group, a tea...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

A Finnish Man Inspecting a Pipe Trench Discovered a Christian Burial Site Dating Back to the Swedish Crusades

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Crusade-era mortuary is located in the yard of the house on the left. Photo: Juha Ruohonen / University of Turku, archaeology. A man who was...

Roman Fort Of Apsaros Reveal Some Of Its Archaeological Secrets

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Credit: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw This autumn, the Polish-Georgian Gonio-Apsaros expedition completed...