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Silver Coins Lead to One of the Earliest Roman Sites in Yorkshire
The dig site found by metal detectorists 3 years ago appears to be a high-status homestead that once had two villas
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Medieval Board Game Unearthed in Secret Castle Chamber
Last month, Russian archaeologists found a secret chamber inside a medieval castle. While exploring this previously unknown area, the archaeologists discovered a clay brick with tracings of what appears to be a medieval board game.
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Hundreds of Roman gold coins found in basement of old theater
Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy.
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I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake
People are saying I am the queen of Sweden because of the legend of King Arthur
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From the liberty cap to the pussy hat: a history of radical objects
How subversives through the ages have expressed dissent
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A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone
How strange rocks—and an obscure language—are changing a decades-old academic consensus.
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New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction
Egyptologists stumble across ramp that helps explain how huge blocks of stones were hauled into place.
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Greek archaeologists uncover first remnants of ancient city of Tenea
Greek archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of a city believed to have been founded by Trojan prisoners of war in the 12th or 13th century BC.
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Turkish and Italian experts restore Cappadocia's 1,000-year-old Tokalı Church
The Tokalı Church, one of the oldest rock-cut churches in Cappadocia featuring precious frescoes, is being restored by experts from Turkey's Ministry of...
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George H.W. Bush remembered by 3 former presidents as ‘one of the best prepared’ in history
Three former presidents, including his son, spoke recently about the life of President George H.W. Bush, all acknowledging Bush 41 was one of the best-prepared presidents in U.S. history, CBS “60 Minutes” reports.
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Were These Killings a ‘Massacre’? And Who Gets to Decide?
A small coastal town had a bitter fight over a monument, and in the end Aboriginal Australians saw their version of history told.
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Delray neighborhood set to receive its own historical archive
Author Karen Dybis is developing an archive of photos, objects, and oral histories for the Detroit neighborhood.
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The Misguided Focus on 1619 as the Beginning of Slavery in the U.S. Damages Our Understanding of American History
The year the first enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown is drilled into students’ memories, but overemphasizing this date distorts history
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Medieval Sword, Blade Still Sharp, Pulled from Sewer in Denmark
Experts think its owner may have been defeated in battle and dropped the luxurious weapon in the muddy streets
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Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History
Players moving pieces along a track to be first to reach a goal was the archetypal board game format of the 18th and 19th century. Alex Andriesse looks at one popular incarnation in which these pieces progress chronologically through history itself, usually with some not-so-subtle ideological, moral, or national ideal as the object of the game.
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New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave
Homo luzonensis fossils found in Luzon island cave, dating back up to 67,000 years
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Mysterious Alabama cave inscriptions decoded to reveal game similar to lacrosse
A team of scholars and archaeologists have decoded Cherokee inscriptions written hundreds of years ago in a cave in Alabama. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave near Fort Payne are the first evidence of the tribe's syllabary, which uses symbols to create words. Experts say one inscription describes a game similar to lacrosse. They say it details an 1828 match and indicates players entered the cave before the games and during intermission for specific ceremonies.
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'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey
One of the first things I did when I moved to Austin a decade ago was visit the Gutenberg Bible housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. As a bibliophile, the importance of that book was not lost on me. However, the impact of Johannes Gutenberg's surviving bibles as cultural treasures and book collectors' dreams was something I ignored. That is no longer the case. Margaret Leslie Davis' The Lost Gutenberg, which traces one Bible's 500-year journey, is an informative, superbly researched book that explores the lives of those who were in contact with the best example of Gutenberg's work.
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Ancient DNA of Crusaders Reveals Warriors Were Also Lovers
Between the years 1095 and 1291 A.D., Christian invaders fought a series of religious wars against Muslim armies in the Near East—primarily to secure control of important holy sites—in what we refer to today as the Crusades. Now, a DNA study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics has cast new light on this tumultuous era and the interactions that the Crusaders—who numbered in the hundreds of thousands—had with local populations.
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She was captured and enslaved 400 years ago. Now Angela symbolizes a brutal history.
Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains
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