The Norimitsu Odachi – Giant Japanese Sword Remains An Enigma The Odachi was a type of Japanese sword used by ancient Samurai. Odachi swords were more ceremonial weapons since it was complicated for the wielder to draw the weapon. The Norimitsu Odachi...
A cartographer accidentally finds a Bronze Age treasure in a forest in Sweden In western Sweden, a man surveying a forest for his orienteering club discovered a trove of Bronze Age treasure estimated to be 2,500 years old. There are about...
Mass grave of British soldiers who died fighting French revolutionaries found in Netherlands The 220-years-old skeletons which date back to the battle against French revolutionaries were found in the Dutch city of Vianen. The British soldiers who died were between the ages of...
Medieval Britons’ Remains Record the ‘Skeletal Trauma’ Inflicted by Inequality According to a recent analysis of hundreds of human remains excavated from three separate burial sites within the historic city centre, social inequality was “recorded on the bones” of Cambridge’s mediaeval...
Egypt Makes ‘Major Discoveries’ At Saqqara Archaeological Site In the coming week, archaeologists in Egypt will open a 3,000-year-old burial shaft at the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo. The unexplored tomb is one of 52 burial shafts found near the much older...
Divers discovered a 3,000-year-old castle underwater in a Turkish lake Sunken cities are usually the stuff of legend, but archaeologists discovered the real thing deep inside Lake Van in Turkey. The home of a lost kingdom has been discovered hundreds of...
Iron Age Murder Victim’s Skeleton Found in England Archaeologists working on the HS2 project in Buckinghamshire uncovered a skeleton thought to be that of a murder victim from the Iron Age. The gruesome discovery was made during excavation work at Wellwick...
Dozens of Iron Age corpses unearthed at eerie Swedish walled fort About 1,500 years ago, perhaps about 450 CE, Unknown raiders stormed the small, prosperous village of Sandby borg on the shore of Öland island, and slaughtered the inhabitants, leaving the bodies where...
