Ancient Britain
Kept under armed guard in the Jewel House at the Tower of London, the “crown jewels” have been pompous symbols of the British monarch that reached today as the living witnesses of the coronation ceremonies over the centuries. The Imperial State Crown The crown was commissioned for king George VI’s coronation in 1937. Used for […]
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The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye thanks to its jawbone peeking out from a limestone seashore. Researchers said on Tuesday this pterosaur, named Dearc sgiathanach, lived roughly 170 million years ago during the Jurassic Period,
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It is an ancient, beautiful mystery that enchants all who glimpse at it over the frost on Salisbury Plain while the sun rises bright. No one can quite imagine the picture of hundreds of workers, tirelessly constructing the foreboding structure that would become the Stonehenge as we know it, in Neolithic-era southern England. It turns
Archaeologists have uncovered a vast Roman trading town on Britain’s HS2 high-speed rail route. The findings, including coins, workshops, kilns and glass, in the area, reveal the Romanization of an Iron Age village. Evidence found during a dig of the site near the village of Chipping Warden in has shown how the settlement, believed
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