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An international team of researchers said Monday they have found the first evidence that spotted horses, often seen depicted in cave paintings, actually existed tens of thousands of years ago.That means ancient artists were drawing what they saw around them, and were ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is bursting with ancient buried treasure and the masses have been bitten by the bug for digging it up -- ironically with the full approval of the government and leading museums.Latest figures released by the British Museum on ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of skeletons at a 16th Century burial ground in the heart of the city that once served London's most notorious psychiatric hospital, the original "Bedlam."The bones are expected to yield valuable information about mortality, ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Smoking was as bad for the Victorians as it is for anyone today, but back in those days it seems it did far more damage to their teeth. In the mid-19th century, prior to the invention of the ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Top British archaeologists are urging the government to rethink a law requiring human remains be reburied, warning it risks undermining years of research into the island's ancient peoples and study of their DNA.The row stems from the reinterpretation ...

Tacitus identified Colchester, London and St Albans as the three Roman towns which were focal points of the rebellion. Camulodunum or Colchester was the pre roman capital of the Trinovantes, one of the first British tribes to join the Iceni in rebellion. ...

In 1912 , fragments of a fossilized jawbone and skull discovered by amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson in Piltdown , England , were presented to the Geological Society in London . For over 40 years, the so-called "Piltdown man" was studied and believed ...

The Amazons were an entire tribe of woman warriors in Greek legend, and their princesses and queens feature in many stories about them. Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture and Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy in Athena?s Daughters: Warrior Princess ...

Hearing the word ?trash? Despite lacking an understanding of germs and how diseases are spread, humans early on discovered the benefits of designating a particular area in their community for the dumping of refuse. Shell middens are preserved largely intact as shells ...

The English market town of Buxton in Derbyshire is one of the UK?s most famous Spa towns, renowned since Roman times when it was known as Aquae Arnemetiae (the Spa of the Goddess of the Grove). There is a flow of spring ...

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Topic: United Kingdom

Cave-painters of ancient horses were realists: study

Britain: An amateur treasure seeker's paradise

Bodies found from London's old Bedlam hospital

Victorian smokers had rotten teeth to match lungs

UK's ancient secrets may be buried with old bones

Roman Towns and the Archaeology of the Revolt of Roman Britain

Piltdown Man

Woman warrior

Archaeology: Finding treasures in ancient trash

A visitor's guide to Buxton, Derbyshire

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