Viking Burial Site Found in England
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Archaeologists in northwestern England have found a burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords, spears, jewelry, fire-making materials and riding equipment, officials said Monday.
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The team examined samples from four animal mummiesâtwo hawks, a cat, and an ibisâdating from 818 BC to 343 BC The mummies are housed in the collection of the Liverpool Museum in Liverpool, England.
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A skull fragment found in a 400-year-old trash pit at Jamestown contains evidence of the earliest known surgery &#151; and autopsy &#151; in the English colonies in America, researchers say.
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One of the biggest Viking treasures ever found has been discovered on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunters, the British Museum announced Thursday.
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Scientists have found a fossil of a "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.
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A 1,000-year-old stone carving that spent years marking the grave of a couple&#39;s pet cat was sold at auction in London Friday for more than $380,000.
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A British archeologist has dug up evidence linking John the Baptist to a cave used for bathing rituals in hills near Jerusalem in what he said could be one of the biggest recent finds for Christian history.
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One of Britain's most remote communities gathered Tuesday to celebrate its Viking heritage with a spectacular festival of fire and fancy dress.
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Fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight have unearthed bones belonging to the biggest dinosaur ever found in the UK.
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The Church of England has agreed to allow researchers using radar to look beneath two churches for remains that could determine whether a skeleton found at Jamestown is that of one of the colony's founders, scientists said Monday.
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An engraving thought to be 10,000 years old has been uncovered in a cave, British researchers said Monday.
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A precious Viking arm ring is handed to a museum after it was found among a late father's belongings.
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A prehistoric neck bone found 12 years ago by amateur fossil hunters in Britain belongs to the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in the UK and possibly Europe, a report published in the Cretaceous Research Journal said today.
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Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife.
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Bones found at a prehistoric burial site indicate they belonged to victims of an Neolithic Age massacre, say scientists.
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The 4,600-year-old ruins appear to form the largest Neolithic village ever found in Britain, archaeologists said today.
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