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Iron Age Dagger and 700-Year-Old Village Found in Scotland Beneath Motorway! Four buildings, part of a Scottish medieval settlement, discovered beneath a motorway hard shoulder in Scotland in 2016 stood “no chance” of being destroyed over the last 700 years.
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Secrets of the Galloway Hoard Revealed Experts have uncovered fascinating secrets of a Viking Age hoard discovered by a metal detector to be presented to the public.
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5,500-year-old burial mound with stone circle unearthed in Ukraine In east-central Ukraine excavations of a unique kurgan or burial mound have been underway for more than 1.5 months. The discovery was made during road works in the village of Novooleksandrivka, some ten kilometres south of the large town of Dnipro.
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Archaeologists find southwest Germany's oldest golden artefact : HeritageDaily : Archaeology News What are cookies? Cookies are small text files that are stored in the web browser that allows HERITAGEDAILY or a third party to recognise you.
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The Venerable Bede and the Origins of the English ‘Nation’ How do you define a nation? Most people would probably think of a nation as being a defined geographical area governed by a political body of some sort which acts on behalf of its citizens, who are usually bound together by some level of shared culture, ethnicity and religious beliefs or moral ideal
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Viking ship burials shrouded in mystery New detailed surveys of Viking age ship settings in Hjarnø, Denmark have been completed by archaeologists examining the origins and makeup of the Kalvestene grave field, a renowned site in Scandinavian folklore.
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The Curious Case of the Rocky Valley Labyrinths Located between Boscastle and Tintagel, Rocky Valley is a small valley in northern Cornwall, England, carved by the Trevillet River.
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Tiny traces of DNA found in cave dust may unlock secret life of Neanderthals Scientists have pinpointed major changes in Europe’s Neanderthal populations – from traces of blood and excrement they left behind in a Spanish cave 100,000 years ago.
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Elite Gold Pendants Unearthed in Norway Were ‘Sacrifices’ to the Gods In separate discoveries that occurred in 2019 and 2020, searchers found seven ancient gold pendants buried in a field near the Norwegian municipality of Råde in Østfold County.
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Remains of nine Neanderthals discovered near Rome When a Neanderthal skull was discovered in a cave on the property of a beachfront hotel south of Rome in 1939, it prompted a theory, since debunked, that Neanderthals had engaged in ritual cannibalism, extracting the brains of their victims to eat.
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The Neolithic Builder of the Aberdeenshire Recumbent Stone Circles In my recently published book, I write “It is astonishing that so much attention is given to the prehistoric monuments of both Stonehenge and Avebury henge when the remains of a far greater Stone Age architectural achievement still exists across the Aberdeenshire countryside.
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Metal Fragments Found To Be Currency In Bronze Age Europe Archaeologists from Germany and Italy have found convincing proof that people in Late Bronze Age Europe used metal scraps or fragments as a form of money.
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Researchers Solve the Origins of a Famous Collection of Viking Bones For over 100 years human remains recovered from the famous Bjerringhøj Viking Age burial in Denmark have been missing.
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REVIEW: ‘Excalibur’ 40th Anniversary The 1980’s had it’s fair share of medieval, fantasy films and it all started in 1981 with Excalibur, a retelling of the legend of King Arthur. John Boorman (Deliverance, Hope and Glory) adapted Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur into an epic, visual masterpiece.
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How England forgot the battlefield that shaped the nation If you were to ask people about battles fought on British soil, I suspect they would be able to suggest a few: Hastings, Bannockburn, Bosworth Field, Edgehill, and the Battle of Britain. They might even remember Towton, Flodden, or Naseby.
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Celtic bucket fitting found in Norway A Celtic ornament likely looted from Ireland by Vikings has been discovered in Trondheim, Norway. The object has two rounded ends with a square between them. One of the ends is engraved with what looks like a face.
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Bronze Age village found under Swiss lake Archaeologists have, for the first time, found traces of a Bronze Age lakeside village under the surface of Lake Lucerne. The find shows that the city of Lucerne area was already populated 3,000 years ago. This is 2,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers said on Thursday.
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