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Hublot Building a Watch With Complications Based on the Antikythera Mechanism
The Hodinkee blog recently reported that the Hublot watch company of Geneva is building a new ultra complication watch as a tribute to the Antikythera Mechanism. The finished product, scheduled to be...
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Löwenmensch Reconstructed
The Aurignacian culture of the Upper Paleolithic (Late Old Stone Age) flourished between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago (or so we think, theories of carbon dating are subject to revision). The...
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Viking Hoard Found by Metal Detector in Silverdale, Lancashire
Australian News: Darren Webster was meant to be going back to work after dropping his son off at home when, on a whim, he stopped by a field and decided to have a quick forage with his metal detector....
View ArticleUnknown Large Object Found in Baltic
The peculiar object lies 80 meters (262 1/2 feet) underwater, somewhere between Sweden and Finland. CNN Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.
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Evidence Increasing That North America Was First Settled From Europe
The Daily Mail reports that discoveries of more sites and more artifacts are continuing to undermine the “Clovis First” theory. Evidence for what is being called the Solutrean Hypothesis keeps piling...
View Article17th Century Forensic Anthropology of Jamestown & St. Mary’s City, Maryland
The video is associated with a Smithsonian exhibition: Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Cheasapeake, running currently until January 6, 2013.
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Three-Quarter Ton Hoard of Celtic Coins Found By Metal Detectors on Jersey
The coins were mostly fused into a solid mass. British hobbyists Reg Mead and Richard Miles searched for three decades on the basis of rumors of a farmer finding silver coins on his land before...
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Possible Wreck of German U-Boat Found 60 Miles Up Labrador River
Sonar image thought to be a sunken German U-Boat. Toronto Star: Rumours of a World War II German submarine at the bottom of the river have been around for years, but a sonar image may prove that it’s...
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What Did the Vikings Look Like?
Irene Berg Sørenson, at Science Nordic, discusses five common contemporary opinions about the Vikings’ appearance. Vikings were dirty and unkempt. Vikings wore horned helmets. Vikings looked like we...
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Looking For Richard
Unknown artist, Richard III, mid-16th century, Society of Antiquaries, London A search is on in Leicester for the remains of Richard III, slain in battle at Bosworth Field, and then buried at...
View ArticleRichard III Found?
The search in Leicester for the remains of Richard III, the last Plantagenet monarch of England slain August 22, 1485 at Bosworth Field, may have achieved success. The Telegraph reports the finding of...
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Polish Drought Lowers Vistula to Reveal Architectural Elements Looted By...
The small number of readers familiar with Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel of the 17th Century Swedish Invasion of Poland-Lithuania The Deluge will have some sense of its devastating impact on the country....
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Roots of Hurricane-Felled Oak on New Haven Green Contained Human Skeleton
Hurricane Sandy gave New Haven a little Halloween present. The 16-acre New Haven Green was laid out in 1638 as the central square of a 9-square town layout. Reputedly, the size of the town green was...
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Chinese Archaeologists Reported Frightened to Enter First Emperor’s Hidden Tomb
Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, is protected in the afterlife by an army of teracotta warriors. Here’s an interesting item from Gizmodo, essentially translated from the Spanish-language paper El...
View ArticleExperts Increasingly Convinced Car Park Remains Are Those of Richard III
Daily Mail ———————————————— Earlier reports.
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Yes, It’s Richard
BBC: “It is the academic conclusion of the University of Leicester that, beyond reasonable doubt, the individual exhumed at Greyfriars in September 2012 is indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet...
View ArticleArchaeology of the Coiffeur
“This university believes that the way of the amateur is the only one to provide satisfactory results.” —Master of Caius College, “Chariots of Fire” (1981). As the Wall Street Journal reports, a...
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Scientists Theorize: Humans Always Had Their Priorities Straight
Just in time for yesterday’s St. Paddy’s Day celebration, Jeffrey P. Kahn, in the New York Times, cites recent theories that agriculture (and therefore civilization) developed earliest for the...
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After Richard III, Leicester Wants Wolsey’s Remains Found
Sampson Strong, Cardinal Wolsey, 1610, Christ Church College, Oxford. The Telegraph reports that the successful search for Richard III’s remains is prompting the city fathers of Leicester to promote a...
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Cursed Roman Ring Which Inspired Tolkien Goes On Display
A Roman ring, found in a farmer’s field (presumably part of what was once the Roman town Calleva Atrebatum) near Silchester, Hampshire in 1785 in some unknown manner wound up preserved in the library...
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Human Sacrifice in Kent
Late Bronze Age sacrificial pit: three murdered people and the head of a cow Scienceblogs: From British Archaeology #131 (July/August): [There was] a Wessex Archaeology dig in 2004-05 at Cliffs End...
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Oldest Bog Body
Live Science reports on the fairly recently (2011) found Cashel Man bog body. A resident of central Ireland’s County Laois came across the well-preserved “Cashel Man” — named for the bog he was found...
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Lost Cities of the Upper Amazon Basin
Boo hoo! Human economic development is ravaging the precious Amazon rain forest. Except, wait a moment, clearing rain forest vegetation is making it clear that people had cleared the same land...
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Extinct Tree Grown From 2000 Year Old Seeds
Judean date palm seeds Treehugger had a very cool item: For thousands of years, Judean date palm trees were one of the most recognizable and welcome sights for people living in the Middle East—widely...
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Tuthankamun’s End
Tuthankamun’s mummy caught fire in his casket after embalming. Scientists haven’t confirmed the reality of the mummy’s curse, but they have got new information of Tutankhamun’s death (of injuries...
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Medieval Sword Found in Polish River
Gazeta Krakowska has the story of the recent discovery of a medieval sword in southeastern Poland by a high school student. (roughly translated by me) During a Sunday walk with his dad and his Bernese...
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Who Made These?
Dr. Yonatan Sahle, leader of a team who found stone tools older than expected, stands in front of an outcrop where artifacts were found. Motherboard Vice: Ancient stone-tipped javelins found in...
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A Piece of History Closed Three Years Ago in Brooklyn
Cornelius Vanderbilt built NYC’s first subway in 1841 in order to bring steam locomotives carrying Long Island Railroad passengers from Brooklyn into Manhattan wile bypassing the traffic-filled Court...
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Bronze Statue of Apollo Confiscated by Hamas
It seems that, either on land in Gaza or under the sea nearby, last summer, some ignorant and greedy barbarians came into possession of an unusually intact and highly artistically significant...
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Tutankhamun’s Tomb: Seal Knot
Knot tied in 1323 B.C., sealing the doors of Tutankhamun’s tomb, discovered 1922. Hat tip to Vanderleun.
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