For those who are interested in Arthurian legends, the sword Excalibur was supposedly pulled out of a rock by the 'true King of Britain', according to Robert de Boron's version in Merlin. And while there is a poetic side to this affair, historians have incredibly found a similar scenario of a weapon being deliberately stuck…
Although very interesting in their designs, the discovery of Viking fortifications pertains to nothing new in the field of archaeology. But this time around, there might be something very special about the ring fortress uncovered in the island of Zealand. Known as the Vallø Borgring, some historians believe this was the very training camp from…
For centuries, human bodies have been preserved through various natural and artificial techniques, such as mummification of the ancient Egyptians, embalming, and more recently, plastination and cryonics. A similar phenomenon is the occurrence of bog bodies, in which human cadavers dating as far back as 9000 BCE have survived inside peat bogs. (more…)