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Archaeology students unearth an early medieval burial pit during a training dig in England
For several years, Cambridge University’s archaeology department has partnered with the local charity Cambridge Past, Present and Future to give student archaeologists the opportunity to dig at real ...
Archaeologists in Germany recently revealed a secret tunnel from the Middle Ages — a tunnel hidden within a much older burial ...
Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...
The location of the discovery implies that the amulet traveled over a whopping 1,000 miles, likely via trade.
Central Germany is among the regions where, as early as the mid-6th millennium BC, farmers displaced the Mesolithic hunter–gatherers from the fertile loess soils. Soon after this migration, however, ...
One of the last cities ever founded by Alexander the Great, later dubbed Charax Spasinou, has finally been rediscovered.
The game the AI reconstructed — now dubbed Ludus Coriovalli (Game of Coriovallum) — is an asymmetric battle of attrition. It ...
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Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life
Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past ...
The medieval tunnel was dug into loess and cut directly through a trapezoidal ditch associated with the Baalberge culture (4th millennium BC), a landscape already reused for burials in later ...
The newly renovated archaeology laboratory, which includes a new classroom, forensic anthropology lab space, and more, is ...
The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...
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