A 2,000 year old metal spoon has been found on the Isle of Man in the United Kingdom. Dating from the Iron Age, it is believed that this bronze spoon may be something very unusual. It is thought that this is a so-called “divination spoon” used for telling the future. Only 28 such examples have
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A field near Canterbury in southeastern England has given up another secret from Dark Age Britain: a 6th century sword dating from the mysterious Anglo-Saxon period which followed the withdrawal of the Romans. The sword was found in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, and is both exceptionally well made and exceptionally well preserved. Duncan Sayer, Professor of
When Dracula was published in 1897 it was an instant success, but one built on an old legend. The strange gothic count of the novel may have been new, but the legend on which Bram Stoker built his story was decidedly not. Vampires had been around for hundreds of years, one of the motley assortment
A gruesome discovery in the United Kingdom has thrown a shadow over Bronze Age England. The find, at the ancient site of Charterhouse Warren in Somerset, has been described as “something horrible.” Here archaeologists have found a great pit, dug by our ancestors and at least 15 meters deep. In the pit were the remains
A new discovery in Gibraltar may finally confirm a long held theory about Neanderthals. While we know they knew how to make fire, now we know to make ovens too. Existing theories abound about neanderthal hearths and the structures built around them to capture and enhance their heat, primarily for extracting tar which they used