Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield
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The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard
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Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
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Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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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': 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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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:
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
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‘Exceptional’ trove of twenty-four ancient statues found immersed in Tuscan spa
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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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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.
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These caves shouldn't exist. Or, at the very least, we can't yet explain them.
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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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Europeana contains over ten million digitalised artifacts from across Europe
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Preserving Egypt’s layered history reveals 'stories of the restoration of diverse locations around Egypt'
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The history of Yellowstone: Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
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Exceptionally well-preserved thermopolium, a Roman-era fast-food stall, unearthed in Pompeii
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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
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'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
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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
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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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
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The deep Anthropocene - A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet’s past and its future
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Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Evidence grows that peopling of the Americas began more than 20,000 years ago
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Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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An ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar
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Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it the oldest evidence of archery to be found in this part of the world
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Entire Roman city revealed using ground penetrating radar
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Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico
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Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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Rare 200-year-old clay pipe depicting thylacine dubbed the 'holy grail' of Tasmanian archaeology
Key points: A clay pipe found in a bottle dump in Launceston appears to show one of the earliest recorded European depictions of a Tasmanian tiger It is believed to be at least 190 years old and...
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A clay pipe found in a bottle dump in Launceston appears to show one of the earliest recorded European depictions of a Tasmanian tiger
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It is believed to be at least 190 years old and handcrafted out of river clay by a local
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Adding to the mystery of the pipe is the depiction of a kookaburra, which were were not introduced to Tasmania until 1902
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-08/rare-clay-pipe-depicts-tasmanian-tiger/12215284
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The mysterious erdstall
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