The treadmill/treadwheel crane sounds like something from Astérix or the Flintstones. But at Guédelon in France, not only do they have one, they're using it to help build their brand new castle.
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Did Neanderthals make art?
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These caves shouldn't exist. Or, at the very least, we can't yet explain them.
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Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway
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Book review: The Dawn Of Everything
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
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Archaeology’s sexual revolution
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Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time
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High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
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When orcs were real - The ancient struggle for homo sapiens to rule the Earth
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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America's first pastime
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This robot has applications to archaeology, space exploration, and search and rescue — with a simple elegant design inspired by a plant
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Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say
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Europeana contains over ten million digitalised artifacts from across Europe
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Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found
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Preserving Egypt’s layered history reveals 'stories of the restoration of diverse locations around Egypt'
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
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'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
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Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon
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Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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An ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar
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Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it the oldest evidence of archery to be found in this part of the world
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Quetzalcoatlus was the largest flying animal of all time. But only a handful of bones have been found. So how do scientists know what it looked like?
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Entire Roman city revealed using ground penetrating radar
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Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico
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Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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'Lovers of Modena' skeletal find were both men; researchers quick to reassess their relationship
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Rare 200-year-old clay pipe depicting thylacine dubbed the 'holy grail' of Tasmanian archaeology
Key points: A clay pipe found in a bottle dump in Launceston appears to show one of the earliest recorded European depictions of a Tasmanian tiger It is believed to be at least 190 years old and...
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A clay pipe found in a bottle dump in Launceston appears to show one of the earliest recorded European depictions of a Tasmanian tiger
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It is believed to be at least 190 years old and handcrafted out of river clay by a local
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Adding to the mystery of the pipe is the depiction of a kookaburra, which were were not introduced to Tasmania until 1902
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-08/rare-clay-pipe-depicts-tasmanian-tiger/12215284
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The mysterious erdstall
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Pompeii ruins show that the Romans invented recycling
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
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Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages
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Inhabiting the earth: A new history of raw earth architecture
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Archaeologists discover paintings of goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy's coffin
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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Why we buy weird things in times of crisis
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