burial Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During an excavation in the small village of Tvååker in Halland County, Sweden, archaeologists made a significant discovery: a large Viking Age burial
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Featured Stories
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have examined an unusual Neolithic burial in Southern Italy. The curious archaeological finding poses many questions. Researchers are attempting to determine why
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The 9,000-year-old shaman burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany, is one of Central Europe's most spectacular discoveries. Discovered in 1934 during construction works, the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A large Anglo-Saxon burial has been unearthed at Bicker Fen, Lincolnshire, UK. The discovery was part of Viking Link’s construction. A project team
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As reported last week, a Norwegian couple was extending their home when they suddenly noticed something unusual sticking up from the earth. It
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2004, construction workers in Norwich, U.K., unearthed human skeletal remains that led to a historical mystery—at least 17 bodies at the bottom
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 years
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have tried to find the burial site of legendary Viking King Harald Bluetooth for decades. Using satellite remote sensing tools, researchers say
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Siberian Valley of the Kings, on the Southern Siberian Steppe of the Russian Federation, is a place of significance to archaeologists who
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - On the left side of the grave, the male skeleton lays with one arm outstretched, holding the abdomen of the female skeleton by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It’s a race against time and there isn’t much time left to uncover the secrets of a rare Norwegian Viking ship burial before
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A unique 8,400-year-old dog burial has been discovered in southern Sweden. It’s an extraordinary find because it is the oldest dog burial unearthed
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - While many cultures bury their dead out of sight beneath a commemorative headstone or a plaque, some societies in China, Indonesia and the Philippines
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Throughout history, the ancient Egyptians believed in life after death and that Osiris, the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the Margate Caves site in Kent, UK have made an unusual discovery. They uncovered an Iron Age skeleton in the bottom of a bell-shaped
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A medieval grave with a skeleton with an arrow in the chest has been discovered by archaeologists of the Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology, Bulgaria. The findings, dated to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - These unusual 2,500-year-old face urns represent one of the most fascinating categories of prehistoric artifacts unearthed in Poland. They were discovered in Pomerania, a region on the southern shore
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The eastern necropolis of the ancient city of Serdica has been found during construction work at the site, which will be the location of a new hotel
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