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November 15, 2011 0 Comments

New research shows that the Pilgrims Way is a fake!!

Recent research carried out by Diarmaid Walshe of the University of Sussex shows that the trackway know as the Pilgrims Way and believed to date to the medieval era has been misnamed and is in fact of an Iron Age origin.

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November 7, 2011 0 Comments

Army’s Operation Nightingale comes to Folkestone

Operation Nightingale comes to Folkestone: A group of injured soldiers learn the skills of archaeology at Folkestone Roman villa as part of their physical rehabilitation.

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November 2, 2011 0 Comments

Sunstones may have helped Vikings navigate from Norway to America

New research adds credence to Viking legend of sunstones that could pinpoint the sun even on cloudy days

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November 2, 2011 1 Comment

How to honour the ancient dead

The pagan debate about the treatment of ancient remains sheds light on our own beliefs as well as those of the past

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Image Source : Wiki Commons : Sauropods tracks in Iouaridene site

October 26, 2011 1 Comment

Large dinosaurs migrated huge distances, say scientists

An analysis of dinosaur teeth suggests the creatures may have migrated from flood plains to uplands during the dry season

Archaeology

October 22, 2011 0 Comments

Lost part of Beethoven masterpiece lives again

A piece of music composed by in 1799 and lost for over 200 years has been painstakingly reconstructed by a Professor of Music at The University of Manchester.

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October 22, 2011 0 Comments

The Thunderstone Mystery

What’s a Stone Age axe doing in an Iron Age tomb? The archaeologists Olle Hemdorff at the University of Stavanger’s Museum of Archaeology and Eva Thäte are researching older objects in younger graves. They have found a pattern.

Archaeology

October 20, 2011 0 Comments

Rare Egyptian coffin found at Torquay Museum, UK

An extremely rare Egyptian coffin, possibly belonging to the son of a king or queen, has been ‘discovered’ at Torquay Museum – so rare is the coffin that even the British Museum doesn’t have one quite like it.

Archaeology

October 20, 2011 0 Comments

Gold rush as Hoard goes on display

The Potteries museum and art gallery has scooped a £40,000 heritage grant to stage its largest ever exhibition on the world’s biggest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver.

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Image Source : Wiki Commons : Ashmolean Museum

October 20, 2011 3 Comments

Egyptian mummy portraits go on display at Ashmolean museum

£5m Egypt project is allowing Oxford’s Ashmolean museum to display stunning objects kept in storage for years

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October 20, 2011 0 Comments

Mastodons were hunted in North America 800 years earlier than thought

Humans were killing large mammals in North America long before ‘Clovis culture’, study of mastodon remains suggests

Archaeology

October 18, 2011 0 Comments

York research centre investigates the origins of humans

A new research centre encompassing experts ranging from historians to biomolecular chemists has been established by the University of York and the Hull York Medical School (HYMS) to investigate human origins.

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October 18, 2011 3 Comments

Taxi Driver Becomes First Egypt Mummy In 3000 Years!!

A FORMER taxi driver has become the first person for 3,000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs. TV viewers will see Alan Billis turned into a mummy over the space of a few months as his body is preserved using the techniques which the ancient Egyptians used on Tutankhamun.

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October 16, 2011 0 Comments

British marble masterpiece to go on display for first time in 200 years

Frieze by forgotten sculpture John Deare sold to Victoria & Albert musuem for a fraction of its value

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October 15, 2011 0 Comments

Black Death genome sequenced from DNA in 14th century skeletons

Genome of Black Death bacterium is remarkably similar to that of modern strains that cause bubonic plague

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Preston Bus Station : Image Source : Wiki Commons

October 8, 2011 1 Comment

British brutalist buildings added to endangered monuments list

Preston bus station and part of the South Bank centre in London listed as among the world’s most endangered structures

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October 6, 2011 0 Comments

Charles Dickens goes global in British Council’s bicentenary festival

Celebrations will honour novelist born in 1812 with film, debates, drama and exhibitions around the world. Among the confirmed events are a debate in January, in Berlin, featuring the writers Claire Tomalin, Toby Litt, Louise Doughty, Philip Hensher, Denise Mina and David Nicholls. The latter has adapted Great Expectations for a film, directed by Mike Newell, which begins shooting next week, starring Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch.

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Claude Lorrain aka Claude Gellée aka Le Lorrain (Lorraine, c. 1600 – Rome : Image Source : Wiki Commons

October 6, 2011 1 Comment

Ashmolean Museum hopes to revive the 17th-century craze for Claude Lorrain

A new exhibition of the 17th-century artist’s work opens on Thursday at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. And while Lorrain may have fallen out of fashion, it aims to demonstrate why he was once one of the most admired and expensive artists in Europe and a particular favourite of the English aristocracy.

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October 1, 2011 1 Comment

Shackleton’s Antarctica 100-year-old Whisky Brought To Life!

Painstakingly recreated from the original bottles which lay buried for a century next to Ernest Shackleton’s hut in Antarctica, an exact replica of Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt is now available with 50,000 bottles released for the festive season.

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