Britain Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stonehenge is widely recognized as one of the most famous ancient stone circles, yet it is not the only Neolithic circular structure created by
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the largest Viking Age building found in Britain. Teams of volunteers discovered the Viking Age
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered evidence suggesting that a house in England may be the site of a lost residence belonging to Harold, the last
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists examine graves, artifacts, and human skeletons to understand historical events, societies, and customs. The absence of human remains and burials hinders scientists
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been researching an ancient cave beneath a Medieval British castle for several years, and their sustained efforts have produced noteworthy results
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Earth Changes
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age people must have been surprised and horrified when the gigantic water waves reaching 20 meters wiped out their dwellings. Some of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has made an extraordinary discovery that re-writes the history of ancient Britain. In March this year, after receiving permission from
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AncientPages.com - Visitors to Richborough Roman fort near Sandwich in east Kent will now find a major new addition to the site: a reconstructed Roman fort gateway in timber, flanked
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old tomb on the Isles of Scilly has puzzled scientists ever since it was discovered in 1999. Inside the grave was a
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton (UK) studying a British dinosaur tooth have concluded that several distinct groups of spinosaurs -- dinosaurs with
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It was a chance discovery. The piece of wood could have easily gone onto the bonfire or been treated as trash. Luckily, Derek
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts—mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The latest analysis of the ancient Colchester vase offers evidence that gladiator fights took place in Britain in the late second century A.D.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found what they say is the first solid scientific evidence suggesting that Vikings crossed the North Sea to Britain with dogs
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team led by archaeologists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has discovered the earliest human remains ever found in northern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Northampton, UK, have found a magnificent 1,300-year-old necklace made up of at least 30 pendants and beads made of Roman
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - When you imagine life for ordinary people in ancient Britain, you'd be forgiven for picturing quaint villages where everyone looked and spoke the same way. But
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Crannogs are fascinating ancient artificial islands in Britain and Ireland. Previous studies have revealed hundreds of crannogs, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Northern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have begun a new project to reveal the secrets of one of Britain’s most powerful Anglo-Saxon queens and the monastery which she
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved ancient road discovered by an archaeologist offers evidence that Romans moved much deeper into Wales than historians previously thought. Dr. Mark
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent (England) confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists report on the discovery of one of the largest Anglo-Saxon burial grounds in Britain. Archaeologists working on HS2 have made discoveries of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hadrian's Wall, also known as Picts' Wall, Vallum Hadriani (in Latin), or simply the Roman Wall, is one of the most impressive Roman
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new comprehensive study of ancient human remains taken from a cemetery at a site called the Links of Noltland has revealed surprises
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Found in the 1950s by workmen digging pipe trenches in Chapel Yard, Yarm, near the River Tees, in the UK, this ancient helmet
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