Richard III's makeshift grave opens to public
The grave of King Richard III, immortalised by Shakespeare as one of history's great villains, was opened up to the public on Saturday in central England.
Archaeology
Jul 26, 2014
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Anthropologist who identified mass graves dies
Clyde Snow, a forensic anthropologist who worked on cases ranging from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to mass graves in Argentina, has died. He was 86.
Archaeology
May 18, 2014
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Ancient skeletons dug up at Florence's Uffizi
Work to expand the Uffizi Gallery's exhibit space has unearthed an ancient cemetery with dozens of skeletons archaeologists say might have been victims of the plague or some other epidemic that swept through Florence during ...
Archaeology
Feb 12, 2014
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Maya dismembered their enemies: Researchers discover a 1,400-year old mass grave at Uxul, Mexico
Researchers of the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have discovered a mass grave in an artificial cave in the historical Maya city of Uxul (Mexico). Marks on the bones indicate that the ...
Archaeology
Sep 10, 2013
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Searching for clandestine graves with geophysical tools
It's very hard to convict a murderer if the victim's body can't be found. And the best way to hide a body is to bury it. Developing new tools to find those clandestine graves is the goal of a small community of researchers ...
Earth Sciences
May 13, 2013
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Monumental effort to save the threatened Viking treasures of Oseberg
Researchers from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, working closely with Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, have been studying ancient wooden Viking artefacts at the synchrotron radiation source BESSY II. The conservators expect ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 5, 2012
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Viking mass grave linked to elite killers of the medieval world
A mass grave found in Dorset could belong to a crew of Viking mercenaries who terrorised Europe in the 11th century – according to a new documentary on National Geographic which pieces together the story behind the burial.
Archaeology
Jan 25, 2012
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Body of infamous Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly found
The headless remains of the infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly have finally been identified, officials said Thursday, solving a mystery dating back more than 130 years.
Archaeology
Sep 1, 2011
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Ancient Egypt and a pioneer of palaeopathology
At the start of the last century, a team of archaeologists began a race against the clock to rescue thousands of human bodies from ancient graves in modern Egypt’s Lower Nubia region. They would have been lost forever ...
Archaeology
Mar 15, 2011
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Was the fox prehistoric man's best friend?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest.
Archaeology
Jan 27, 2011
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