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Showing posts with label burial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burial. Show all posts
Monday, November 13, 2017

Who Were These Vikings Buried Sitting Upright?

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Ancient Origins BY THORNEWS Accidentally, in 1963 a burial ground with 24 graves deep inside the bay of Sandvika on the eastern side...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

1,000-year-old Viking Boat Burial Discovered Under Market Square in Norway

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Ancient Origins A millennium-old Viking boat grave with bones and sheet bronze still inside has been discovered under a market square i...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Roman Era Tombs Discovered in Egypt Reveal Diverse Trends in Burial Architecture and Grave Goods

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Ancient Origins Not all Egyptian tombs are alike. Apart from the impact of social status, there is also a difference in architectural ...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

2,000-Year-Old Tombs and Sarcophagi Uncovered in Hidden Burial Chambers in Egypt

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Ancient Origins A team of archaeologists has discovered three tombs dating back 2,000 years in southern Egypt. The three new discoveri...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Neolithic Burial Mound Uncovered Near Stonehenge

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Ancient Origins A Neolithic burial mound near Stonehenge that experts refer to as the “House of the Dead” has been discovered in Wilts...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

1,500-Year-Old Mound in England Found to be Elite Anglo Saxon Burial

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Ancient Origins Students at the historic British boys’ boarding school Eton College may have been using an ancient grave as a communit...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Ancient Shrewsbury sacred site 'oldest of its kind'

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BBC Archaeologists say a sacred burial site uncovered in Shrewsbury in February is over 4,000 years old. They say the site, which was...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Vikings Beheaded English King and Patron Saint Edmund, but What Happened to his Body?

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Ancient Origins It’s a 9th century tale involving Vikings, their beheading of a famous English king, and upheaval that led to the buria...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Researchers Wonder if Rich Viking Boat Burial Found in Scotland was Made for a Warrior Woman

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Ancient Origins A team of researchers who have been examining the horde of grave goods left in an amazing Viking boat burial have decide...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial

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History Extra The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt. (Margaret Maitland) Evidence of ancient Egyptian belief in life after death emerged as ear...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Owner of Mummified Legs Likely to Be Nefertari, Favorite Queen of Ramses II

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Ancient Origins They are not very pretty to look at now, but a pair of mummified legs are now believed to have belonged to a much sough...