Birgit Maixner: ‘Place names are like fossils in the landscape. They tell us stories about the past – if we know how to interpret them’
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Truth and lies: Henrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy | Curator's Corner with Lesley Fitton
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Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane – analysis of birch tar describes a female hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eyes
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Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway
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Researchers used skeletal remains and ancient DNA to reconstruct the burial of a woman who lived in what is now southern Sweden 7,000 years ago
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Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel Other extra videos in the series: Find out More - The Battle Find out more - The Armour Find out More - Medieval Arrows...
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel
Other extra videos in the series:
Find out More - The Battle
Find out more - The Armour
Find out More - Medieval Arrowsedit: Tod also re-uploaded the previous video with better sound:
Find out More - Medieval Arrows*12 votes -
Correcting the historical bias against domestic materials
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa
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Buried in ice - The Franklin Expedition cemetary
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Digging up Woodstock: An archaeological investigation of the famous festival site unearthed evidence hidden in the haze of memory
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4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease
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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
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Lasers reveal 60,000 ancient Maya structures in Guatemala
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'Manhattan of the desert': Civil war puts Yemen's ancient skyscrapers at risk
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West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there
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A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway
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Archaeologists have confirmed a father-son duo discovered an Iron Age dwelling using metal detectors in Sievi, Finland
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Nikkei secrets unearthed on the Seymour: Digging up a forgotten Japanese outpost
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Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment
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These circular ruins at Smeerenburg are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost
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An archaeological fairytale – medieval ships found in the heart of Oslo
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Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years
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Ancient indigenous aquaculture site Budj Bim added to UNESCO World Heritage list
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Digging deeper into Pompeii's past
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Climate change could ruin archeological sites before we get the chance to study them
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New investigations into the Tahitian Mourner’s costume
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Germany: 1,000-year-old sarcophagus opened in Mainz
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Beer archaeologists are reviving ancient ales — with some strange results
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11,000-year-old Turkish town about to be submerged forever
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'It would destroy it': New international airport for Machu Picchu sparks outrage
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Britain's equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-on-Sea
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'It could change everything': Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
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Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
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Long-lost shipwreck found off Victorian coast, seventy-seven years after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine in WWII
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Designing the linguistic and translation mechanics in Heaven's Vault, a game about science fiction archaeology
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New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines
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The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution
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When we first made tools
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
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There’s new evidence for what happened to people who survived Vesuvius
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First confirmed Denisovan skull piece found
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The Metropolitan Museum will return prized gilded coffin after learning it was stolen
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How the Latin East contributed to a unique cultural world
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Untouched 4,400-year-old tomb discovered at Saqqara, Egypt
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Weewarrasauras: Lightning Ridge discovery the first dinosaur to be named in NSW in almost a century
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A 4,000-year old tale of trade and contraband
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