November 2011
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Holocaust Museum Creates Online Database →
Due to working hideous hours and other general life-based bleurghness, I confess that I have neglected this blog for the past couple of weeks. Tut tut! Must. Do. Better. However, I have returned to lots of new followers which is rather nice - a big HELLO to you all! :o)
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Saxon burial ground under Warwickshire couple's... →
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A Warwickshire man has described the moment builders found human bones under his patio.
Stephen and Nicky West were having their home redeveloped when one of the builders unearthed the remains.
Mr West said: “There was a tap on the door and the builder said ‘Stephen, I think there’s…
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Peru finds 14th century mass grave of children →
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LIMA — A Peruvian archeologist on Sunday announced the discovery of the remains of 44 infants and young children sacrificed to appease ancient deities in the 14th century at a site in the high Andes near the border with Bolivia.
The remains were found near a stone funeral tower — known locally as…
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Strange burials found at dig - bodies of children... →
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THE remains of two children hastily buried in shallow graves have been found among bones dating back to the 12th century during a community excavation in East Oxford.
The Archeox project spent six weeks working in the grounds of Bartlemas Chapel, off Cowley Road – the site of a former leper…
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Ashmolean returns Ancient Egyptian mummies to... →
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At the core of the Ashmolean Museum’s spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, there lies a man who died almost 3,000 years ago – and has just been revealed as having no…
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Safeguarding skeletons using 3D digitisation... →
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The University of Bradford has secured almost £750K to safeguard skeletons from collections based in Bradford and London.
The project, funded by the ‘Joint Information Systems Committee’ (JISC), will use 3D laser scanning, CT scans and high resolution photography together with new clinical descriptions and historical illustrations to create a web-accessible archive of...
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Archeological Discovery Indicates Human Sacrifice →
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Archeological research of pagan graves in the valley Þegjandadalur in Suður-Þingeyjasýsla county in northeast Iceland support the theory that ritual human sacrifice was practiced during paganism in Iceland.
An L-shaped turf wall was discovered in Þegjandadalur, which is believed to have…
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PREHISTORIC MEN SCARRED, PIERCED, TATTOOED... →
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Men in prehistoric Europe scarred, pierced and tattooed their penises, likely for ritualistic and social group reasons, according to a new study.
Analysis of phallic decorations in Paleolithic art, described in the December issue of The Journal of Urology, may also show evidence of the…
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The World's Most Fascinating Corpses →
Photo slideshow from the Telegraph - click through to see the images!
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A Natural History of Vampires →
Click the link for a really informative article on the science behind vampire folklore…
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The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain... →
This is the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art. Inspired by research from neuroscience, dissection and neuroeconomics, our current exhibition features a rug based on fMRI imaging, a knitted brain from dissection, and three quilts with functional images from PET. The artists are Marjorie Taylor and Karen Norberg. Techniques used include traditional Nova...
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Britain's most haunted places... →
…according to the Telegraph. Click the link if you dare! WoOoOoOoOo!
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Iceman Photo Scan →
The Iceman Photo Scan is an innovative project which records the complete photographic documentation of the body of the Iceman mummy.
Thanks to 12 differing angle-shots it is possible to see the whole body of the mummy.
The intuitive zoom function enables a high-resolution navigation, from a total body image down to millimetric detail.
The image at any enlargement guarantees both a perfect...
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Fossil Teeth Put Humans in Europe Earlier Than... →
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The fossils seemed hardly worth a second look. The one from England was only a piece of jawbone with three teeth, and the other, from southern Italy, was nothing more than two infant teeth. But scientists went ahead, re-examining them with refined techniques, and found that one specimen’s age had previously been significantly underestimated and that the other’s dating and identity...
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Not murdered... clumsy! Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old... →
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Oetzi the prehistoric iceman may not have been murdered, say scientists, who now believe he could be the world’s first known mountaineering victim.
The ancient natural mummy was believed to have died 5,300 years ago when he was hit by an arrow during a hunting trip.
Scientists - who…
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Russian Man Stole 26 Corpses And Dressed Them Up... →
theossuary:
Uh. You’re gonna wanna check out these two pictures and also read the article Buzzfeed links to.
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Medieval Graves Disturbed For Surprising Reasons? →
archaeologicalnews:
Once laid to rest, the remains of many who died in medieval Europe were not left in peace. As much as 40 percent of graves from the mid-fifth to mid-eighth centuries appear to have been disturbed after burial.
Grave robbers, searching for wealth buried along with the dead, have frequently born…
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