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Inhabiting the earth: A new history of raw earth architecture
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Archaeologists discover paintings of goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy's coffin
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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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 S05 E11
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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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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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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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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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Germany: 1,000-year-old sarcophagus opened in Mainz
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11,000-year-old Turkish town about to be submerged forever
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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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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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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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A 4,000-year old tale of trade and contraband
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Archaeologists have just unearthed an inscription in Pompeii that suggests the Ancient Roman city might have been destroyed a full two months later than previously thought
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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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1600s Native American fort is one of the most important Northeast finds
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Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony
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Drone reveals massive Stonehenge-like circular monument in Ireland
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Coin found off Arnhem Land coast could be among Australia's oldest foreign artefacts
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Archaeologists and astronomers solve the mystery of Chile's Stonehenge
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Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland
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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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