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Comment by Stephen on March 12, 2018 at 1:04pm

Normal for Normans? Exploring the large round mounds of England

Silbury Hill at sunrise: at 31m tall, Silbury is the largest prehistoric monument in Europe. A recent investigation set out to see if the monument had any prehistoric siblings in England. (Photo: Steve Marshall)

Most of England’s monumental mounds are assumed to be Norman castle mottes built in the period immediately after the Conquest – but could some of them have much earlier origins? Jim Leary, Elaine Jamieson, and Phil Stastney report on a project that set out to investigate some of these mighty constructions.

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/normal-normans-exploring-lar...

Comment by Doone has Fremdschämen on March 9, 2018 at 2:52pm

Brilliant Maps‏ @BrilliantMaps Mar 7

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Comment by Stephen on March 6, 2018 at 11:55am

Oldest-known message in a bottle found on WA beach 132 years after being tossed overboard

A Perth family has made an extraordinary historical discovery after becoming bogged on a West Australian beach.
Tonya Illman was walking across sand dunes just north of Wedge Island, 180 kilometres north of Perth, when she noticed something sticking out of the sand.
"It just looked like a lovely old bottle, so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase," she said.
But Mrs Illman realised she had likely uncovered something far more special when out fell a damp, rolled up piece of paper tied with string.

http://amp.abc.net.au/article/9518632

Comment by Doone has Fremdschämen on March 3, 2018 at 7:58pm

Map of the Ancient Roman World from their perspective https://www.vividmaps.com/2018/03/map-ancient-roman-world-perspective.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter … #Oldmaps #World

Comment by Stephen on March 2, 2018 at 6:41pm

Rare Roman boxing gloves found near Hadrian's Wall 

Leather bands dating from AD120 are thought to be only known surviving examples

The gloves resemble leather padded bands rather than the full-hand versions used in modern boxing. Photograph: The Vindolanda Trust

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/19/rare-roman-boxing-g...

Comment by Stephen on March 2, 2018 at 6:34pm

Britain's prehistoric catastrophe revealed: How 90% of the Neolithic population vanished in just 300 years

Ancient Britons may have been nearly wiped out by bubonic plague brought by newcomers to the island

Extraordinary new genetic evidence is revealing how Britain experienced a mysterious almost total change in its population in just a few centuries after the construction of Stonehenge.
It suggests that some sort of social, economic or epidemiological catastrophe unfolded.
The great 20-30 tonne stones of Stonehenge were erected by Neolithic farmers whose ancestors had lived in Britain for at least the previous 1,500 years – and new genetic research on 51 skeletons from all over Neolithic Britain has now revealed that during the whole of the Neolithic era, the country was inhabited mainly by olive-skinned, dark-haired Mediterranean-looking people.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-ne...

Comment by Stephen on February 20, 2018 at 5:51pm

Modern tech unravels mysteries of Egyptian mummy portraits

A new exhibit explores the science of ancient funeral paintings

MUMMY MYSTERY The Hibbard mummy, now on display at Northwestern University, holds the body of a girl estimated to be 5 years old at death. Recent analyses might help reveal a cause of death.

Everybody’s a critic. Even back in second century Egypt.
While digging in Tebtunis in northern Egypt in the winter of 1899–1900, British archaeologists stumbled upon portraits of affluent Greco-Egyptians placed over the faces of mummies. One grave contained an ink and chalk sketch, a bit larger than a standard sheet of printer paper, of a woman from around the years A.D. 140 to 160. The sketch includes directions from an unidentified source to the artist to paint the “eyes softer.”

Funerary portraits discovered from ancient Egypt (one at left) covered the faces of mummies. A sketch (right) on the back of another portrait has instructions in Greek to paint the “eyes softer.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/modern-tech-unravels-mysteries-...

Comment by Doone has Fremdschämen on February 18, 2018 at 10:54pm

Comment by Stephen on February 5, 2018 at 5:19pm

Scientists discover ancient Mayan city hidden under Guatemalan jungle 

Aerial laser mapping detects thousands of hidden structures in Peten region, suggesting its population was millions more than previously thought

Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defence works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala’s Peten region, suggesting that millions of more people lived there than previously thought.

Read more=  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/03/scientists-discover...

Comment by Stephen on February 3, 2018 at 4:21pm

This Mass Grave May Belong to 'Great Viking Army'
Bones are yielding new clues about the massive, mysterious Viking forces that invaded England.

For years, archaeologists were stumped. What happened to the Great Viking Army, a massive force that seized great swaths of England in the 9th century but left barely a trace?

Archaeologists now report that a mass grave in England may contain nearly 300 Viking warriors—the only remains of the Great Viking Army’s warriors ever found.
Archaeologists first uncovered the burial site in the 1980s, in Derbyshire, England, and thought it might contain remains from the Great Viking Army, also known the Great Heathen Army. But there was one problem—radiocarbon dating of the site revealed that the remains were too old to be Viking invaders.
The army was thought to have spent winters in Derbyshire from around 873 A.D. to 874 A.D, but initial analysis of the skeletons resulted in dates from the 7th and 8th centuries.

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/...

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