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University of York finds a surprisingly intact brain in Iron Age skull discovered during excavation for campus extension. Its original owner appears to have been sacrificed. Additional link Still...
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Rare German Bomber to Be Recovered from North Sea
Dornier 17 bomber lying inverted in the Goodwin Sands. A largely intact casualty of the Battle of Britain, a Dornier 17 fast bomber, referred to affectionately by the Germans as the Fliegender...
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King Tutankhamun’s Trumpets
The Pharoah Tutankhamen ruled Egypt for nine years, from approximately 1355 to 1346 BC. He ascended the throne at age nine, and he remained in power until his sudden death at age 18. His tomb was...
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14th Century Horde Found in Backyard in Lower Austria
Ring with precious stones An Austrian residing in or near the city of Wiener Neustadt, referred to in news accounts only as “Andreas K.”, was digging to expand a small pond in his backyard garden in...
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Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things, and Battles Long Ago
Human remains of Bronze Age began turning up along the banks of the Tollense River, near Neubrandenburg on the Mecklenburg plain north of Berlin, in 1997. More than 2000 bones representing the...
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Sealed Tunnel Discovered Under Teotihuacan Temple
Temple of Quetzacoatl Daily Mail reports that archaeologists using radar discovered a 120 m. (or 130 yard) long tunnel beginning under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in the ancient pre-Mexican...
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Lost City of 1001 Churches
Church of the Holy Redeemer, built 1035 to house a fragment of the True Cross. I had not ever hear of the abandoned city of Ani until seeing Boogie Man’s photoessay. Ani, located in Eastern Turkey,...
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Nike of Varna
Gold earrings depicting the goddess Nike [Victory]. Hellenistic (Late 4th Century B.C), Varna Archaeological Museum, Varna, Bulgaria Yesterday, a Facebook friend Ekaterina Ilieva Ilieva posted a...
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1500-Year-Old Bronze Buckle Fragment Found in 1000-Year-Old Alaska Eskimo House
The fragment of leather on the broken bronze buckle was carbon-dated to 600 A.D. A University of Colorado Bouilder archeology team excavating a 1000-year-old Inupiat Eskimo house at Cape Espenberg on...
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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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