medieval Archive
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In today's world, stress is a common experience for most people, stemming from various sources such as demanding jobs, news broadcasts, financial worries,
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AncientPages.com - Medieval people have a reputation for being superstitious – and many of the supernatural phenomena found in the pages of medieval chronicles, miracle stories and romances are
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have recently uncovered a Medieval town in Oberschleißheim, a municipality in Munich's district, Germany, during construction work. This discovery has sparked numerous questions.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 900-year-old picture stone from the 12th century was discovered during home renovation work in Germany. Homeowner Peter Wittenberg unearthed this rare artifact
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The formation of Sussex is a complex historical process that spans several centuries. In 410 AD, following the departure of Roman legions from
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Most people appreciate the benefits of a good night's sleep. Healthy sleep involves getting sufficient uninterrupted sleep regularly. When we achieve quality sleep,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from the University of York has returned to Skipsea in East Yorkshire to excavate the remains of a medieval
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Visiting a marketplace in the Middle Ages could be a pleasant experience. However, honesty was crucial because practices such as fraud and theft
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Have you ever experienced something unexplained and shared your story with others who refused to believe you? If yes, then rest assured you
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A late medieval loop for hanging keys or a purse was found near Kamień Pomorski, a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - You have probably seen people wearing shoes with extremely long toes in many Medieval paintings. These pointed shoes, whose tips could extend from
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A medieval pilgrim's badge depicting a basilisk dragon in a circle enclosed was found in Wólka Nieliska, Zamość district, in southeastern Poland. Image credit:
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Masaryk University in Brno, a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, have made an extraordinary discovery. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A series of ‘bone biographies’ created by a major research project tell the stories of medieval Cambridge residents as recorded on their skeletons,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have spent much time working on the examination and conservation of a Medieval shipwreck wreck found near the Old City Harbour of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many archaeological secrets exist in forests and mountains. Archaeologists can use imaging drones to capture sites from the air in hard-to-get areas. Sometimes,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 1,000-year-old grave containing the remains of a woman and man. The most curious aspect of this discovery is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2022, archaeologists made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair was discovered in a woman's grave in Steinsfeld in Central Franconia
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Researchers have shed new light on York’s medieval Jewish population, unearthing new documents and evidence which points to a thriving community where the chief Jewish
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Medieval sundial has been discovered in the old town of Marburg, Germany. Students at Marburg University had been excavating the site
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AncientPages.com - The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts themselves. One such example is the frequently
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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 - While excavating at Bjørvika, east of Oslo’s center in Norway, scientists discovered the remains of an ancient structure. It turned out that these
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Several beautiful Bronze Age and Medieval artifacts unearthed in Wales, UK, have been declared a treasure. Four magnificent objects were discovered across Wrexham,
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly recorded some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions. An international team of researchers, led by the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists investigating the sunken Medieval warship Gribshunden (1495) have found a “treasure trove” of exotic spices and plants imported from distant lands.
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AncientPages.com - When construction work began on a new arts center in Newport, south Wales, in 2002, the builders on site could scarcely have imagined what they would
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - At the end of 2022, MOLA archaeologists in Norfolk, UK, announced the amazing discovery shedding new light on the life of Anglo-Saxons. Scientists
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Striped clothing is common today, and most people have some fabrics with this pattern in their wardrobe. However, the history behind striped clothing
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team has solved the mystery of a gold-plated pendant found in a Medieval refuse pit in the Old City section of
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AncientPages.com - Cats had a bad reputation in the middle ages. Their presumed links with paganism and witchcraft meant they were often treated with suspicion. But despite their association with the supernatural,
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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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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A series of exciting inscriptions, almost invisible to the naked eye, have been discovered in the margins of an important eighth-century manuscript in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of two medieval merchant vessels, known as cogs, were discovered over the summer in Varberg in Sweden, during an archaeological excavation.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Deep in the vaults at Nationalmuseet, Denmark, is a unique axe. The Medieval axe is unusual for many reasons. It was put in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare and well-preserved bone flute has been unearthed in Kent, UK. Scientists discovered the flute dating back to the 13th-15th Century while
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair has been discovered in a woman's grave. The excavation team unearthed the chair
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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 - A thorough scientific examination of a Medieval map may confirm a Welsh myth and offer evidence of the long-lost sunken kingdom Cantre'r Gwaelod.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of remains from medieval Cambridge shows that local Augustinian friars were almost twice as likely as the city's general population
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University have uncovered the remains of a medieval ship and its cargo dating back to the 13th century off
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New analysis into the residue inside ancient ceramic vessels from 11th–12th century Jerusalem has found that they were potentially used as hand grenades.
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