“It’s very special that the man and woman’s graves are marked by the same tomb or palisade. It’s unusual that we’re able to establish that the man and woman wer...
"The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others unspeakably disgusting life." - Barthold Georg Niebuhr
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Last week, we covered...
"Until recently, who would have thought that Ipplepen village was once 'plugged in' to the Roman empire?" - Danielle Wootton, liaison officer for the Portable A...
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It's a battle that's recorded in history textbooks all over the globe, and one of the most decisive battles ever in European history. It began...
“We will see what we find in the next stages. The history of this place is very old. If we can find evidence from the Hittite era, we will make a great contribu...
"You don't just have these silent but deadly bullets flying over; you've got a sound effect coming off them that would keep the defenders' heads down, Every arm...
We usually don't tend to think of cities before the industrial revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries as any more than narrow streets, buildings stacked up o...
“These archaeological sites, these artifacts are the footprints of our people. We do not see these sites as ‘ruins’ or as being abandoned. The spirits of our an...
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At the 2,400 Years World Congress, which marks 2,400 years since Aristotle's birth, archaeologist Konstantinos Sismanidis presented a p...
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ANGKOR, CAMBODIA - it's a phenomenon that archaeologists are struggling to explain: huge fields of row upon row of earthen dome-shaped mo...
Elizabeth Lundin is a Portland-based freelance writer and blogger who enjoys writing about history almost as much as she enjoys reading it: which is quite a lot.
