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Skin in the game: Examining the lives of Britain’s oldest church doors | The Past
3+ hour, 34+ min ago (339+ words) In 2005, for example, it was revealed that the door in the vestibule leading to the chapter house at Westminster Abbey was made from timber felled after AD 1032. The door itself was constructed sometime in the 1050s, during the reign of the…...
Silver beyond Empire: Offering a new perspective on the late Roman to early medieval transition | The Past
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (186+ words) The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the worlds of history, archaeology, ancient art and heritage. The site is powered by our unique stable of accessible specialist…...
Current Archaeology’s March Listings: exhibitions, events, and heritage from home | The Past
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (455+ words) This online exhibition from the University of Aberdeen explores the myths and imaginings of northern regions." Take a virtual tour of this famous medieval stronghold in County Cork, Ireland." If you are feeling inspired by the recent Winter Olympics, you…...
Museum news | The Past
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (406+ words) Two newly announced exhibitions, set to open in London later this month, will bring the Viking Age and Cleopatra's Egypt to life through a combination of cutting-edge digital technology, dramatic projections, and displays of replica and real artefacts. Cleopatra: the…...
Home on the range: Examining a late Roman villa estate at Milton, Cambridgeshire | The Past
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (261+ words) The site's story begins long before the Roman period: the earliest hints of a human presence came in the form of seven worked flints " certainly prehistoric, and probably produced during or after the late 4th millennium BC " though these were all…...
Domination: the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity | The Past
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (190+ words) REVIEW BY DAVID PETTS The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the worlds of history, archaeology, ancient art and heritage. The site is powered by our unique…...
Cancer in ancient Egypt: A disease beyond time | The Past
2+ week, 1+ day ago (303+ words) An illustrative example can be drawn from data published by Nerlich et al. (2006) on excavations at Thebes-West and Abydos. Nerlich's group identified five cases of clear cancer evidence among 905 individuals, corresponding to a minimum crude cancer prevalence of 0.55%. This number…...
Western Delta discoveries | The Past
2+ week, 4+ day ago (186+ words) The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the worlds of history, archaeology, ancient art and heritage. The site is powered by our unique stable of accessible specialist…...
Ticking all the right boxes: Broadway, Worcestershire | The Past
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (226+ words) Conducted on behalf of Wychavon District Council, the excavations also uncovered evidence of activity dating from prehistory through to the early medieval period. Watch this space for a fuller feature about this exciting site in a future issue of CA....
Medieval and modern mines: Excavating the CA archive | The Past
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (186+ words) The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the worlds of history, archaeology, ancient art and heritage. The site is powered by our unique stable of accessible specialist…...