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16 votes
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Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world
9 votes -
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
8 votes -
Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
11 votes -
Archaeologists in Turkey have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle
28 votes -
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.
15 votes -
2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
26 votes -
Israeli proposal to move early Christian mosaic to US Museum of the Bible sparks controversy
17 votes -
It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
10 votes -
Archeologists uncover ruins believed to be Roman Emperor Nero's theatre near Vatican
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Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour 2, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - FULL MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED Other extra videos in the series: ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARMOUR PLATE TESTS ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - MAIL TESTS ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARROWHEAD MATERIAL...
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - FULL MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED
Other extra videos in the series:
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARMOUR PLATE TESTS
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - MAIL TESTS
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARROWHEAD MATERIAL TESTSAnd they have also created a website for the project now too:
https://todtodeschini.com/youtube-projects/arrows-v-armour-2/Previous series of tests from a few years ago:
https://tild.es/h3u6 votes -
Ocomtún: A long-lost Maya city that was just discovered
16 votes -
Recent analysis shows Iberian Copper Age tomb of high-status person in Spain was built for a woman
“This study was undertaken as part of a broader research looking at the interplay between early social complexity and gender inequalities,” study co-author and University of Seville prehistorian...
“This study was undertaken as part of a broader research looking at the interplay between early social complexity and gender inequalities,” study co-author and University of Seville prehistorian Leonardo García Sanjuán tells PopSci. “As part of this research, it became obvious that there is a serious problem in the identification of biological sex in prehistoric skeletons, which are often found in a poor state of preservation.”
Now redubbed the “Ivory Lady,” this woman’s tomb was first discovered in 2008 in Valencia on Spain’s southeastern coast. The find dates back to the Copper Age, when the metal was used for construction, agriculture, and even creating engravings of owls that may have been toys. The grave is also a rare example of single occupancy burial at the time and the tomb was filled with the largest collection of valuable and rare items in the region. These treasures include high-quality flint, ostrich eggshell amber, a rock crystal dagger, and ivory tusks.
All of these trinkets and single tomb initially indicated that the remains must belong to a prominent male, but peptides and DNA don’t lie.
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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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Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway
18 votes -
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
12 votes -
Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' thirty-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid
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Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield
6 votes -
The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
5 votes -
Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century
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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall
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'Hallowed space': Canadian divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship
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The incredible Calypso: Jacques Cousteau's crazy exploration vessel
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
7 votes -
‘Exceptional’ trove of twenty-four ancient statues found immersed in Tuscan spa
8 votes -
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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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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The treadmill/treadwheel crane sounds like something from Astérix or the Flintstones. But at Guédelon in France, not only do they have one, they're using it to help build their brand new castle.
7 votes -
These caves shouldn't exist. Or, at the very least, we can't yet explain them.
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Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time
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When orcs were real - The ancient struggle for homo sapiens to rule the Earth
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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America's first pastime
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Europeana contains over ten million digitalised artifacts from across Europe
8 votes -
Preserving Egypt’s layered history reveals 'stories of the restoration of diverse locations around Egypt'
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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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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
5 votes -
'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
11 votes -
Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years
8 votes -
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
5 votes -
An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon
8 votes -
Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark
7 votes