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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Extraordinary Roman marble floor discovered in ancient sunken city
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Portuguese ship with treasure found in Namibian desert
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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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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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New analysis of wooden finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
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Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue
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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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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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DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers
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Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries
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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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Ancient Sahul's submerged landscapes reveal a mosaic of human habitation
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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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Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway – Merovingian period discovery pushes back tradition of ship burials
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Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
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Mysteries of Neolithic Europe
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Ordering off a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian menu
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Scientists: Indonesian pyramid may date to 14000 BC, rewriting human history
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A Dutch artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
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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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Vikings and glass windows
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure: dating back half a million years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens
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Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD
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Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia
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Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world
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A portrait of Tenochtitlan
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Metal detectorist makes Norway's ‘gold find of century’ – cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings
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Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
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Archaeologists in Turkey have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle
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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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2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
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Israeli proposal to move early Christian mosaic to US Museum of the Bible sparks controversy
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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