Britain Archive
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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Artifacts
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Depictions of the mysterious Hooded Ones have been encountered in various European places. Who were these enigmatic cloaked individuals, and why is it
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some years ago, archaeologists discovered a very well-preserved Bronze Age settlement in Britain. While investigating the site scientists noticed the 3,000-year-old settlement located
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Prehistoric stone circles keep many secrets and fascinate ordinary people and researchers. One of the circles that has long been a puzzle, is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A wave of migrants from what is now Greece and Turkey arrived in Britain some 6,000 years ago and replaced the existing hunter-gatherers
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Could man be of a greater antiquity than previously thought? Did the inhabitants of Britain, Germany and France once in the remote past share
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - DNA studies reveal that people in Britain had blue eyes and dark skin 10,000 years ago. Who were the first people to arrive in Britain and where
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The royal burial site at Sutton Hoo, a few miles from the Suffolk coast, East England, is the most famous of all Anglo-Saxon
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Leicester suggest that the first landing of Julius Caesar’s fleet in Britain took place in 54 BC at Pegwell Bay on the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Edward of Woodstock (1330-1376) was the eldest son and heir of England's King Edward III Plantagenet. Historically speaking, he was a very talented
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Considered by many historians to be one of the greatest military leaders of all time, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) conquered most of Europe with
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two amateur treasure hunters have discovered remarkable gold artifacts decorated with ancient Celtic art. It is an incredible discovery because examination revealed the precious
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News
AncientPages.com - On January 24, 1965, Britain's greatest war-time leader Winston Churchill died in London. Born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, in 1874, Churchill joined the British Fourth Hussars,
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Did you know that New York was once called New Amsterdam? Today, it’s difficult to imagine that New York could ever have had another name, but it
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Like Banshee in Irish mythology, the Green Lady has an extraordinary place in Scottish and Welsh folklore as she is believed to protect a family
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have examined an ancient Cambridgeshire settlement that was only there for a short time before it was engulfed by flames 3,000 years ago. The village
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to very ancient poems, Odin's sons, Weldegg, Beldegg, Sigi, Skiold, Sæming, and Yngvi, became kings of Franconia, East Saxony, West Saxony, Sweden, Denmark,
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