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Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

What does +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ mean?

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The British Library is looking for help trying to solve an inscription on a medieval sword... [ View the story "What does +NDXOXCHWDR...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Westminster Abbey, Ukek and York: Medieval News Roundup

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From archaeological discoveries in Russia and England, to a 15th century recipe on 'Caudell of Almondys', here is some of the things...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Trying to find Harold, reading the Magna Carta, and going 3D: Medieval News Roundup

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This week we take a look at some stories about the search for King Harold (sigh), some interesting medieval archaeological discoveries, and ...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Vikings, Emojis and Michaelmas: Medieval News Round-up

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This week's news from the medievalverse has Anders Winroth talking about his new book The Age of the Vikings, funding for Newport's ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Byzantium on Scotland, Hospital Food and the 1970s: Medieval News Roundup

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For our fellow medievalists, here are some of the news and interesting posts that we came across in the last week: [ View the story "...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Medieval Cures, Archaeological Finds, and The Quest: Medieval News Roundup

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Some of the interesting news about the Middle Ages that have come out in recent days: [ View the story "Medicines, Archaeology and T...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Irish Brain surgeons, Vikings who recycle and spotting mistakes in churches: Medieval News Roundup

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Armour on Bodies, Divergent Bodies, and what it takes to have a volcano named after you

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Our latest medieval news roundup, including a few articles, archaeology news, tweets about upcoming conferences, the next medieval TV show, ...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Medieval News Roundup: The Viking Facebook, drunken archaeologists, competitive jousting in Australia and ranting about Lancelot

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The Verge takes a look at some of the interesting work being done by statistical physicists Ralph Kenna and Pádraig Mac Carron on medieva...
Thursday, February 06, 2014

Sea Monsters, Bones, and Textbooks: Medieval News Roundup

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The Bones of Charlemagne Swiss researchers believe they have confirmed that the 94 bones and bone fragments kept at Aachen Cathedral belon...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Technology fit for a King

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From The View: Loughborough Universty Magazine (Spring/Summer 2013) It is a discovery that has captivated the nation and been dubbed by ...
Sunday, August 04, 2013

Boat, oyster shells, coins and an Anglo-Saxon gravestone - what has been found from the Middle Ages

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Some recent news on what medieval items people are finding in England and Wales... Archaeologists working in Norfolk have discovered the r...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Doctors can now figure out if you have the Black Death; and more medieval news

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In a development that could have been very useful over six hundred years ago, scientists have discovered a simple and effective way of det...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Three medieval archaeological discoveries: Newfoundland, Egypt and Cambodia

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Here are three reports of medieval discoveries from around the world... Newfoundland We know that the Vikings tried to create a settlemen...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Reading, Insulting, Taxing, Finding and Stealing - medieval news roundup

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What did people read in the Middle Ages? A new book is looking at how people in late-medieval London read. Arthur Bahr, a professor of l...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Found in China, what to find in Iceland, and why we may never find the secret of the Voynich Manuscript

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The Voynich Manuscript has confounded scholars ever since it was revealed by a book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich in the early part of the ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Newly discovered Anglo-Saxon grave may be evidence of 7th-century monastery

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Archaeological work being done at St.Hilda's Church in Hartlepool has turned up an Anglo-Saxon grave. Other burials from the Early Mod...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Black Death, Northampton Castle find, and history-related crowd-funding projects

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BoingBoing has just posted an article  Shedding light on the Black Death , which offers a good overview of recent research on the plague th...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Which medieval king will they find next?

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With the media sensation caused by the recent discovery of Richard III, and the resulting boom in interest at  it is not surprising that tha...
Monday, February 04, 2013

Remains of Richard III confirmed

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The University of Leicester made the official announcement today that the human remains recovered last September in a car park in Leiceste...