Viking Grave in Denmark Reveals 1,000-Year-Old Mother and Son Burial The Copenhagen Post reports that researchers at the Roskilde Museum have analysed DNA samples from the remains of a man and woman discovered in a 1,000-year-old burial known as the…
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600-Year-Old Sword and Equipment Found in Olsztyn Aleksander Miedwiediew, a history buff and detectorist discovered a bare sword, a sheath, and a knight’s belt with two knives attached, all of which most likely date from the Battle of Grunwald. The…
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300-Year-Old “Exceptional” Gold and Copper Prosthesis Discovered in Poland Something novel has been discovered by Polish archaeologists excavating the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Krakow; it is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.…
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1,300-Year-Old Wooden Ski Pair Discovered in Norwegian Ice The long-lost ski of a pair used more than 1,300 years ago has been discovered on a Norwegian mountaintop. The first ski was uncovered in 2014 and seven years later, the Digervarden…
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17th-Century Skeleton of Scandinavian Girl Found with Bird Skull in Mouth: A Mysterious Burial in Poland When long-dead human remains are found buried in unusual circumstances, anthropologists are usually able to piece together why. But the bones of a child…
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Exploring Possible Neandertal Hunting Tactics: The Chough Bird Strategy Juan Negro crouched in the shadows just outside a cave, wearing his headlamp. For a brief moment, he wasn’t an ornithologist at the Spanish National Research Council’s Doñana Biological Station in…
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Archaeologists Stunned by Discovery of 5,000-Year-Old ‘Scottish Pompeii’ Settlement Duncansby Head lighthouse marks the most northeasterly point of the British mainland. It’s almost 880 miles from Land’s End in the southwest of England. Just beyond here are the Orkney islands, over 70 of them,…
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New Archaeological Findings Unveil Hidden Atrocities of Nazi SS Camp on Alderney, the Only German Concentration Camp on British Soil One of the British Channel Islands has a German concentration camp which has been a location for terrible atrocities, which…
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2,000-Year-Old ‘Mini Pompeii’ Discovered in France: Uncovering Ancient Roman Secrets This find took place in the district of Sainte-Colombe, southern Lyon, and was dubbed a Mini Pompei by its similarity to the Roman town buried in Naples after the Vesuvius…
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Discover Thamugadi: Africa’s Roman Ghost City Buried for a Millennium While the whole city often does not vanish, the Roman colony of Thamugadi was established in the North African province of Mumidia by Emperor Traian about 100 A.D., the city,…
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