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Pompeii: new paintings found
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A portrait of Tenochtitlan
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Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD
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Archaeologists in Türkiye have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle
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A Dutch artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
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Ancient skull found in China is unlike any human seen before
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Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. Canadian scientists say evidence shows digits may have been ritually removed to appease deities or aid social cohesion.
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2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
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Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies
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Scientists: Indonesian pyramid may date to 14000 BC, rewriting human history
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Untouched 4,400-year-old tomb discovered at Saqqara, Egypt
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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
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Ordering off a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian menu
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering
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Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed
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Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway
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Ancient Sahul's submerged landscapes reveal a mosaic of human habitation
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Israeli proposal to move early Christian mosaic to US Museum of the Bible sparks controversy
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Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
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Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia
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Ocomtún: A long-lost Maya city that was just discovered
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Exceptionally well-preserved thermopolium, a Roman-era fast-food stall, unearthed in Pompeii
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Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers, genetic study reveals
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The dirty secrets of Pompeii: Brothels, art, and more
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Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history
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By studying dig sites, sagas and ancient cookbooks, a culinary archaeologist is recreating dishes the Vikings ate – and rewriting the popular view of these people in the process
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Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues.
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Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say
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Beer archaeologists are reviving ancient ales — with some strange results
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If we shoot a 140lb draw weight English longbow from a five story medieval tower, how much further will the arrows go?
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Archeologists uncover ruins believed to be Roman Emperor Nero's theatre near Vatican
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Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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Making the 2000 year old "pizza" from Pompeii
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Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area.
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Who invented the wheel? And how did they do it?
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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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"Humans were not centre stage": How ancient cave art puts us in our place
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The location for Stonehenge may have been chosen due to the presence of a natural geological feature
I watched a documentary about Stonehenge tonight, and it proposed the theory that the location for Stonehenge was chosen because of a natural geological feature in the area. There's a man-made...
I watched a documentary about Stonehenge tonight, and it proposed the theory that the location for Stonehenge was chosen because of a natural geological feature in the area.
There's a man-made path that proceeds south-west towards Stonehenge: "The Avenue". This path was built around the same era as Stonehenge itself. If you walk westward along The Avenue on the winter solstice, you'll be facing the point on the horizon where the sun sets. However, under The Avenue, there's an old natural geological formation from the time of the Ice Age: a series of ridges in the rock which just coincidentally align with the sunset on the winter solstice (an "axis mundi"). Before Stonehenge was built, there was a chalk knoll on that location. That meant that you could walk along a natural geological path towards the sunset on the shortest day of the year, and there was a local geological landmark in front of you.
The theory is that these natural geological formations coincidentally aligning with an astronomical phenomenon made the site a special one for early Britons. That's why there was a burial site there, and later Stonehenge was built there.
Here's the article by the archaeologist who discovered the Ice Age ridges: Researching Stonehenge: Theories Past and Present
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Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
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Another gold treasure discovery in Norway – thirty-five 1400 year old gold foil figures found in a pagan temple near Hov
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face
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Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found
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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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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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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 -
'It would destroy it': New international airport for Machu Picchu sparks outrage
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Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch.
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DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers
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