The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps)
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A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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Mexico's butterfly warriors: Day of the Dead?
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The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing the country's past in extraordinary detail.
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‘Dragon prince’ dinosaur discovery 'rewrites' T.rex family tree
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10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark
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First intact Roman pot found in Ireland reveals ancient trade relations
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In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered
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Mayan site with pyramid and canal system discovered in Guatemala
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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Ancient Roman wooden water pipe made from hollow tree trunks unearthed beneath a street in Belgium
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Museums where you can discover the world's ten oldest artifacts
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The great big pseudoarcheology debunk
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Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021
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Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch
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Danish archaeological discovery has raised questions about the origins of the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet, thought for decades to have links to Sweden
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Europe's undeciphered prehistoric tablets
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Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
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Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
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Archaeologists discover stash of 1,500-year-old weapons – includes the only known Roman helmet ever found in Denmark
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Hidden pyramid structure discovered near Caral, Peru
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World’s oldest 3D map discovered
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Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of engraved sun stones – linked with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe
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Mantracks: a true story of fake fossils
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An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms
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Roman with Scandinavian ancestry lived in Britain between AD100 and AD300, long before the Anglo-Saxons or Vikings arrived research shows
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‘Really incredible’ sixth-century sword found in Kent in the United Kingdom
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Dozens of sites linked to the Viking great army as it ravaged Anglo-Saxon England more than 1,000 years ago have been discovered
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Archeologists look at how and when humans first moved into the Pacific
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Archaeological dig at Notre-Dame unearths 2,000 years of history
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Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered using new tech - high altitude communities challenge previous consensus about life in Central Asia
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A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform
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Medieval Nubian fashion brought to life
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St Andrews researchers discover ‘King Arthur’s Hall’ is five times older than thought
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DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were
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Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text
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Lost Silk Road cities unearthed in Uzbekistan's high mountains
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
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Archaeologists are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller boats around Scotland's west coast
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Secret tomb found under ‘Indiana Jones’ holy grail filming location in Petra
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Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark – a stone paved root cellar, which could represent a remarkable technological leap in resource preservation
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Danish family seek to return Etruscan objects to Italy – Bent Søndergaard's children say they want to carry out ‘his final wishes’ and send back antiquities he bought in 1960s
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Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings
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Rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark were long believed to be comparable. A team of researchers now challenges that assumption.
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