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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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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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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Who invented the wheel? And how did they do it?
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The mysterious erdstall
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Pompeii ruins show that the Romans invented recycling
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
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Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages
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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 with Lesley Fitton
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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 shipwreck off Florida’s coast pits archaeologists against treasure hunters
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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The fertile shore: Archaeologists and even geneticists are closer than ever to understanding when humans made the first bold journey to the Americas
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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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"Humans were not centre stage": How ancient cave art puts us in our place
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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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Buried in ice - The Franklin Expedition cemetary
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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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'Manhattan of the desert': Civil war puts Yemen's ancient skyscrapers at risk
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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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