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Friday Five…Militant Mums

Friday Five…Militant Mums

Talk about tough love! We all love our mums dearly, and this Sunday (which we hope you already know is Mothering Sunday!) we plan to show this in spectacular form with roast dinners, posh…

Digging up Daleks – Ex-cav-ate! Ex-cav-ate!

With only a series of small walls remaining where there was once a grand Roman fortress, archaeologists could be forgiven for wishing that they could jump into a Tardis and whizz back to a…
Friday Five… Must-see Museums

Friday Five… Must-see Museums

Grab your suitcase! Here at DigVentures, we’re into our digital technology and all the conveniences it can offer. Like Google Art, for instance, where you can view great art around the world from museums…
Friday Five…Revolting Rhymes

Friday Five…Revolting Rhymes

There’s nothing sweet about these little ditties! How many mummies today lull their little angels to sleep with the nursery rhymes their own mother sang to you as a wee whippersnapper? Those nursery rhymes…
Friday Five… Worst Vikings Ever

Friday Five… Worst Vikings Ever

  Man the barricades – The Vikings are coming! Renowned for their skills in raiding, raping and pillaging they were not a bunch you would want to pick a fight with. For this week’s Friday…
Friday Five… Historical Love Rats

Friday Five… Historical Love Rats

Phew, Valentines mania has finally passed. No more sickeningly sweet Facebook statuses and having to fight our way through our front doors due to the mound of tat we’ve been posted by secret admirers…

Friday Five… Incurable Archaeological Romantics

It goes without saying that an archaeologist is married, first and foremost, to the job. Sure, it can be tedious and hard work (show us a marriage that isn’t!) but with commitment and trust,…

Friday Five… Faces of Father Christmas

Spoiler alert – look away now kids – the grown-ups are talking!!! With eye-watering prescience (see number five on last week’s ‘Christmas Presents for Archaeologists’) this weeks Friday Five tackles the most critical, pressing…

Friday Five… Fearless Female Pirates

Hat… check. Sword… check. Parrot… check. Penchant for rum… check. Beard to twiddle while you plot your daring heist… Uh oh. Not to fear, your hopes of sailing the seven seas commandeering stolen ships…

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Friday Five… Greek Monsters

It may surprise the Harry Potter generation, but Centaurs, Medusa, and many of the other fantastical beasts in modern storytelling weren’t dreamt up in Starbucks by a single mother nursing a latte with Voldemort written…

Friday Five…the Top 5 moustaches of all time!

The breaking dawn tomorrow morning will see the beginning of Movember 2013 (*cringe from the ladies*). It’s at this time of year men worldwide relish the excuse to let hairy caterpillars set up camp…

Friday Five… Mummies and Bog Bodies

We recently published a post about the Otzi the Iceman, a 5,300 year-old Italian some modern day relatives probably don’t want to be reunited with. Preserved by the arctic conditions of his homeland, he…

Friday Five… Victorian inventions we can’t live without

It seems the Victorian era wasn’t all rats, rotting teeth and emptying your chamber pot onto the street. They gave us some pretty significant inventions as well. Here are five of the best… 1.    …

Friday Five… Most Impressive Egyptian Temples

In light of recent events, it’s fair to say that Egypt it is not likely to be a popular winter sun getaway for this October half term. But rather than dwell on the terrible…

The World’s Five Oldest Written Languages

If History is written by the winners, then Archaeology tells us how things actually were – unsullied by the duplicitous meaning of the written word. The trowel, it might be said, never lies! But…
Out and About with…Ben Swain!

Out and About with…Ben Swain!

One of our Venturers, Ben Swain, recently paid a visit to Flag Fen. Here he updates us on how things are looking, and how it felt to go back… Back to Flag Fen! “After…
Out and About with…Raksha and Lisa

Out and About with…Raksha and Lisa

It’s two for the price of one again this week, as Raksha gets to boss Lisa around the trenches! Last week I was out and about in Grantham, Lincolnshire.  Grantham is notorious for its…
Out and about with…Fergus

Out and about with…Fergus

Rearranging the people’s stuff to suit my nap-time needs!

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