Heritage
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6.2KThe story of how livestock made its way to southern Africa
Much of South Africa has good grazing for livestock. And sheep, goats and cattle have played an important role in the history...
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4.1KMapping the elephant ivory trade: New evidence revealed
Eastern Africa has been a major source of elephant ivory for millennia, with a sharp increase in trade witnessed during the 19th...
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3.4KResilient ‘risky-and-reliable’ plant use strategy may have driven Neolithization in Jordan
A resilient dietary strategy balancing reliable wetland plants and "riskier" seasonal grasses may have driven adoption of the sedentary lifestyle which later...
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3.6KAgriculture development & its imprints in environmental records during Neolithic Age in north China
China has a long tradition of agriculture production. Millet crops including foxtail millet and broomcorn millet were firstly domesticated in north China,...
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10.8KResearchers reconstruct house in ancient Pompeii using 3D technology
By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to...
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12.0KKing Harold the Great: what might have been if the English had won at Hastings
We may not know exactly how England’s King Harold died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 – was he cut down...
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9.6KFood culture after 1066
50 years after William of Normandy landed on English soil in one of Britain’s landmark historic moments, Cardiff University researchers are aiming...
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17.4KDid your ancestor fight in the Hundred Years War?
If you’ve ever wondered whether your ancestors served as a medieval soldier in the Hundred Years War, a newly launched website from...
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7.5KIN BRIEF – MMO Announces further consultation for controversial Goodwin Sands dredge project
A spokesperson for the Marine Management Organisation has confirmed to thePipeLine that the controversial application by the Port of Dover to dredge...
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11.9KScotland’s thatched buildings recorded for the first time
All 305 of Scotland’s historic, traditional thatched buildings have been recorded for the very first time as part of a unique field...
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10.4KMythbusting Ancient Rome – the emperor Nero
If asked to think of a single individual who epitomises the decadence, destruction and debauchery of Ancient Rome, the name Nero would...
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8.2KThe fall and rise of Native North America
The story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking,...
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11.3KMeet the 800-year-old golden rhinoceros that challenged apartheid South Africa
It may be small enough to sit in the palm of your hand, but even now – nearly 800 years after it...
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7.9KResearcher Identifies Oldest Textile Dyed Indigo
The indigo-blue cloth found in Peru was determined to be 6,200 years old.
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7.9KProject finally solves mystery of who built Liverpool’s oldest city centre building
It is Liverpool’s oldest surviving city centre building and a fine example of Queen Anne-style architecture, yet the builders and architects responsible...
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24.1KThe British Museum distorts history and denies its racist past
The British Museum in London is rewriting history to appear in a better light and defend itself against demands to return objects...
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8.5KThe artefacts that came back from the sea
Items thousands of years old that were retrieved from the sea off Hadera were turned over to the Israel Antiquities Authority
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13.3KMary Rose: Tudor painting and tidal analysis offer clues as to why it sank
Skulls, the ship’s figurehead and other artefacts from the wreck of a 1545 Tudor warship have been made available to peruse online...
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8.8KDestruction of Old St Paul’s Cathedral highlights devastating impact of Great Fire of London
“Thus lay in ashes that most venerable Church, one of the most antient pieces of early piety in the Christian world” –...
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10.0KSymbolizing identity: Identity marks and their relation to writing in New Kingdom Egypt
The advent of script has never managed to eliminate the use of symbols. This is the finding of research carried out by...
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10.9KCheating, bribery and scandal: how the ancient Greeks did the Olympic Games
Is cheating at the Olympic Games a symptom of modernity? Do recent scandals involving athletes signal the decline of the Olympic idea?
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7.9KResearch highlights how glass was a ‘symbol of power’ to ancient cultures
The world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge opened to visitors in central China, connecting two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province.
