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What’s the best thing you’ve ever found? It’s a common question asked of archaeologists and one that more often than not leaves disappointment dashed across the face of the asker. The Lost Gold of…
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…
Ahh… Christmas. A time for family, trimming the tree and eating so much you feel sick… and who could forget the magical Christmas tradition of manically running round fighting the last minute hordes to…
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…
If you’ve ever thought of creating some elaborate archaeological hoax to make your millions and set yourself up for an early retirement think again. The forgery detectives will get you in the end… 1….
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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…
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…
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…
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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. …
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…
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…
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