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13-04-2019
Archaeological Institute America

Medieval Bones Unearthed in Northern Ireland


COUNTY DOWN, NORTHERN IRELAND—BBC News reports that archaeologists and community volunteers led by Brian Sloan of Queen’s University in Belfast discovered the remains of 14 people next to Down Cathedral, known as the burial place of the fifth-…
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12-04-2019
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Colonial-Era Trash Pit Found in Maryland


ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND—Sewer work in Annapolis has uncovered a brick wall, a drain, a decorative piece of stonework, and an unusual collection of artifacts dating from prehistory, the colonial era, and the nineteenth century in an area of the city…
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12-04-2019
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U.S. Repatriates Artifacts to Mexico


MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—Yucatan Expat Life reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working through the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, has handed over two artifacts to officials from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. The…
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12-04-2019
Museum Crush

The story of Yemen and its complex relationship with the UK in ten objects


Chris Cooper, Senior Curator, Contemporary Conflict at IWM talks us through ten objects from the IWM North exhibition Yemen: Inside a Crisis, which opens on May 17 2019 1960s FLOSY stencil This is one of the objects contextualising Britain’s…
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12-04-2019
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Psychedelic art of the 1930s: Mescaline and psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum


Ahead of a fascinating new exhibition at Bethlem Museum of the Mind exploring a psychedelic art experiment in the 1930s, Museum Crush talks to author and cultural historian Mike Jay about mescaline, art and psychiatry In 1936 two doctors at the…
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12-04-2019
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Mescaline, psychiatry and psychedelic art of the 1930s at the Bethlem Museum


Ahead of a fascinating new exhibition at Bethlem Museum of the Mind exploring a psychedelic art experiment in the 1930s, Museum Crush talks to author and cultural historian Mike Jay about mescaline, art and psychiatry In 1936 two doctors at the…
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12-04-2019
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The mystery ‘Stephenson’ locomotive revealing its secrets at Locomotion


An investigation into a locomotive of unknown origin could offer clues about a lost George Stephenson steam engine design One of the world’s oldest steam locomotives, believed to be a replica of an original 1822 George Stephenson design now lost to…
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11-04-2019
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First Upper Paleolithic Cave Art Found in the Balkans


SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND—Live Science reports that artwork that may date to the Upper Paleolithic period has been discovered in Croatia’s Romualdova Cave by archaeologist Aitor Ruiz-Redondo of the University of Southampton and his colleagues. Some 30,…
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11-04-2019
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Possible New Early Human Discovered in the Philippines


CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—According to an NPR report, archaeologist Armand Salvadore Mijares of the University of the Philippines and an international team of researchers have unearthed bones in a cave on the island of Luzon that they say came from three…
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11-04-2019
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MONGOLIA


MONGOLIA: New dating of a skull originally dubbed Mongolanthropus has revealed it is 8,000 years older than once thought, and actually belonged to a modern human. When the 35,000-year-old hominin fossil was first uncovered in the Salkhit Valley, it…
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11-04-2019
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JORDAN


JORDAN: Humans and dogs have been best buddies for thousands of years, although for exactly how long is debated. Canine bones from a site called Shubayqa 6 indicate that the mutually beneficial relationship dates back at least 11,500 years.…
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11-04-2019
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GREENLAND


GREENLAND: Viking legend holds that Erik the Red devised the name “Greenland” in order to attract settlers to the notoriously cold island. A new study suggests the name wasn’t so misleading after all. By analyzing oxygen isotopes from flies trapped…
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11-04-2019
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GUATEMALA


GUATEMALA: Divers have found hundreds of intact Maya artifacts lying 500 feet underwater in Lake Peten Itza. The objects, which include ceramic bowls, incense burners, obsidian knives, and musical instruments, were likely thrown into the lake during…
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11-04-2019
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Life in a Busy Oasis


The Dead Sea includes the lowest point on Earth, at more than 1,400 feet below sea level, and lies in a long and narrow desert valley that runs through Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank. The sea itself is nearly 1,000 feet deep and covers more…
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11-04-2019
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Epic Proportions


More than a decade ago, archaeologists Andrew Chamberlain of the University of Manchester and Mike Parker Pearson of University College London began taking measurements at Stonehenge as part of their research at the site. They determined that the…
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11-04-2019
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Stabbed in the Back


The skeleton of an eleventh-century man who appears to have been executed has been unearthed in central Sicily. When archaeologists led by Roberto Miccichè of the University of Palermo found the remains in a shallow grave, they immediately realized…
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11-04-2019
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A Fox in the House


Four foxes buried alongside women at prehistoric sites in northeastern Spain offer insight into the value Bronze Age Iberians placed on their animal companions. The animals were unearthed in three graves dating to the end of the third to the…
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11-04-2019
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Tigress by the Tail


A belt buckle featuring a whimsical depiction of a tiger and its cub has been unearthed in the city of Cheongju in South Korea. The third-century A.D. bronze artifact depicts a crouching tigress with her mouth wide open, as if roaring, and a tiny…
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11-04-2019
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Family Secrets


At Tell Edfu in southern Egypt, in a large villa dating to the beginning of the 18th Dynasty (ca. 1500–1450 B.C.), archaeologists have found evidence of the rise and fall of an elite couple. Near a small fireplace and offering table, they discovered…
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11-04-2019
Museum Crush

The wonderful Georgian grotesques of Tim Bobbin – The Lancashire Hogarth


Mark Doyle, Art Gallery Curator & Collections Manager at Touchstones Rochdale, on the remarkable John Collier, commonly known as Tim Bobbin or the Lancashire Hogarth John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, was born in 1708 in Urmston and lived his…
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