Pieces Of A 1,000-Year-Old Manuscript Belonging To A Refugee English Princess Found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest. Credit: Regionaal Archief Alkmaar Many books […]
What Female Jobs Could Lead To Being Accused Of Witchcraft In Early Modern England?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While both men and women have historically been accused of the malicious use of magic, only around 10–30% of suspected witches were men by the 16th and 17th centuries. This bias towards women is often attributed to misogyny as well as economic hard times. Now, a Cambridge historian has added […]
Remarkable Complex Of Early Neolithic Monuments Discovered In Herefordshire, England
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – While investigating the area around Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, England, scientists discovered a remarkable complex of early Neolithic monuments. Archaeologists used advanced radiocarbon dating to investigate the age of Neolithic monuments and the results showed the structures were much older than expected. Credit: Antiquity (2023). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2023.93 The dating indicates that Neolithic […]
Shepherd’s Monument Mystery: Yet Another Undeciphered Inscription
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – All across the world, there are still many mysterious ancient scripts, tablets, codes, and maps that, until this day, remain undeciphered. Multiple attempts to solve the enigma have failed. Many of the world’s greatest minds have tried to crack the code but without success, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin. […]
2,250-Year-Old Iron Age Settlement Discovered Near Upton-Upon-Severn
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An Iron Age settlement dating from around 2,250 years ago has been discovered on the site of a new roundabout being built near Upton-upon-Severn, UK. The discovery was made during the planning phase of the improvements being made by Worcestershire County Council to tackle congestion at the A38/A4104 staggered crossroad […]
Was King William II Murdered In The New Forest?
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Some historical mysteries cannot be easily solved. One of them involves King William II, who died under mysterious circumstances. Historians are still debating what happened on August 2, 1100, in the New Forest. Was King William II sH๏τ by accident or murdered? Left: William II of England, Credit: Matthew Paris, […]