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Showing posts with label Britons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Britons. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

The Legendary Origins of Merlin the Magician

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Ancient Origins Most people today have heard of Merlin the Magician, as his name has been popularized over the centuries and his story ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Did Dutch Invaders Wipe Out Bronze Age Britons During the Construction of Stonehenge?

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Ancient Origins A new gene study suggests that large groups of newcomers arrived in Britain during the building of Stonehenge, around 2...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

The Celts: unpicking the mystery

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History Extra Boudicca was considered to be a personification of the goddess Andrasta, says Martin Wall. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Britons were eating frogs' legs 8,000 years before the French

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History Extra They’ve long been considered a French delicacy, but a new archeological dig in Wiltshire suggests frogs' legs may hav...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Anglo-Saxons

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History Extra Edward The Confessor, Anglo-Saxon king of England. From the Bayeux Tapestry, which tells the story of the events leading ...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

The 10 worst Britons in history

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History Extra Illustrations by Jonty Clark The result is a fascinating, if not strictly scientific, top 10, showing the ...
Friday, October 2, 2015

Bronze Age Britons Mummified the Dead: Smoked over Fires, Preserved in Bogs

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Ancient Origins Mummification may have been more common in Bronze Age Britain than previously believed, and the ancient Britons may have...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

LOST TREASURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (1998): 1. STONEHENGE AND THE ANCIENT BRITONS

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