The new Norse World database will make it easier for researchers to study perceptions of the surrounding world in Medieval Scandinavian literature. The new tool is a digital resource aimed at researchers in fields such as ...
Archaeology
Nov 2, 2018
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Archaeologists now have new tools for studying the development of medieval villages and the transformation of the historical landscapes surrounding them. In a study recently published in EPJ Plus, scientists have attempted ...
General Physics
Oct 9, 2018
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On the island of Torcello, at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice excavation site, some protagonists of the island's thousand-year history have begun to emerge. A tomb datable to around 700 A.D. has recently been unearthed ...
Archaeology
Oct 2, 2018
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If you want to know anything about the Viking Age, Ribe, in west Denmark, is the place to go.
Archaeology
Sep 13, 2018
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Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green "children of Woolpit", who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and were reported to have ...
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2018
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Experts from the University of Warwick have contributed to new thinking on tackling inequalities associated with older age in lower and middle income countries.
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2018
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Artifacts of the Bronze Age at the territory of the Southern Urals have been the object of active research for several decades by archaeologists from around the world. For the last decade, scientists of South Ural State University, ...
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2018
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When historian Rowan Dorin first stepped onto the Stanford campus in early 2017, he made it a habit to visit Green Library every week to dig through its collection of medieval documents and objects.
Archaeology
Jul 20, 2018
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The Danish medieval town of Odense is the final resting place for hundreds of people who died with a frightening disease: Leprosy.
Archaeology
Jun 26, 2018
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The Middle Ages – spanning the 5th to 13th centuries – witnessed the rise of the Catholic Church, the spread of Islam and social and political transformation that laid the foundation for the Renaissance and modern Western ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2018
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