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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Archaeology student unearths seven spectacular Viking-era curled silver arm rings north of Denmark's second-largest city Aarhus
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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
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The ghosts of the Green Sahara
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How rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life
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Extraordinary Roman marble floor discovered in ancient sunken city
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LISICA - The Scientist Soap Opera - Celebrating my 30th episode!
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Portuguese ship with treasure found in Namibian desert
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An archaeology of personhood and abortion: Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures
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12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world
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Ramses II’s long-lost sarcophagus has finally been identified
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Blacksmiths are reconstructing a Viking ship to better understand the secrets of the navigation of Scandinavian warriors a thousand years ago
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The oldest art in Greece is not what you think
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Alexander the Great's untold story: Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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Why were Ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?
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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
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Pseudoarchaeology and the pseudoscience pipeline - Milo Rossi live at Virginia Tech
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Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues.
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Pompeii: new paintings found
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Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent
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