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Rare Stories About Merlin And King Arthur Digitally Reconstructed From Circa 13th Century TextThe photo shows two researchers, a woman wearing a red sweater with the sleeves rolled up, and a man wearing a black sweater and glasses, examining a manuscript laid out on a cushion support. The woman is holding a page of the manuscript while a camera with a long lens photographs it. Next to the manuscript is a colour chart resting on the table.

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Rare Stories About Merlin And King Arthur Digitally Reconstructed From Circa 13th Century TextThe photo shows two researchers, a woman wearing a red sweater with the sleeves rolled up, and a man wearing a black sweater and glasses, examining a manuscript laid out on a cushion support. The woman is holding a page of the manuscript while a camera with a long lens photographs it. Next to the manuscript is a colour chart resting on the table.
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Rare Stories About Merlin And King Arthur Digitally Reconstructed From Circa 13th Century Text

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Why Did The Tower Of London Once House Hundreds Of Animals?A photo of the walls of the Tower of London taken on a bright morning. The foreground shows a turret and a wall, beyond which some of the larger buildings are visible.

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Why Did The Tower Of London Once House Hundreds Of Animals?A photo of the walls of the Tower of London taken on a bright morning. The foreground shows a turret and a wall, beyond which some of the larger buildings are visible.
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Why Did The Tower Of London Once House Hundreds Of Animals?

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Stabbed, Slashed, And Bleeding: Meet The Medieval “Wound Man” With All The InjuriesA cropped photo of the Wound Man's upper body and head. The illustration shows the various weapons sticking out of his upper torso, including clubs, knives, swords, spears and arrows. Surrounding these weapons are textual labels in Latin.

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Stabbed, Slashed, And Bleeding: Meet The Medieval “Wound Man” With All The InjuriesA cropped photo of the Wound Man's upper body and head. The illustration shows the various weapons sticking out of his upper torso, including clubs, knives, swords, spears and arrows. Surrounding these weapons are textual labels in Latin.
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Stabbed, Slashed, And Bleeding: Meet The Medieval “Wound Man” With All The Injuries

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Why Do Medieval Staircases Usually Go Clockwise? (We Promise It's Not What You Think)photo of stone staircase that has been flipped horizontally so the stairs appear to be twisting in an anticlockwise direction

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Why Do Medieval Staircases Usually Go Clockwise? (We Promise It's Not What You Think)photo of stone staircase that has been flipped horizontally so the stairs appear to be twisting in an anticlockwise direction
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Why Do Medieval Staircases Usually Go Clockwise? (We Promise It's Not What You Think)

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Lost Silk Road Mountain Cities Mapped Using LiDAR Carried By DronesToday Tugunbulak looks like a series of mounds that could be natural, but these hide what was once one of the largest high altitude cities in the world.

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Lost Silk Road Mountain Cities Mapped Using LiDAR Carried By DronesToday Tugunbulak looks like a series of mounds that could be natural, but these hide what was once one of the largest high altitude cities in the world.
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Lost Silk Road Mountain Cities Mapped Using LiDAR Carried By Drones

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Woman Warrior Monk Discovered Among Remains Of Medieval Spanish KnightsOrder of Calatrava knights

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Woman Warrior Monk Discovered Among Remains Of Medieval Spanish KnightsOrder of Calatrava knights
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Woman Warrior Monk Discovered Among Remains Of Medieval Spanish Knights

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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval Englandred squirrel sitting on a branch against a green backdrop

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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval Englandred squirrel sitting on a branch against a green backdrop
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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval England

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Long-Lost Monastery And Home Of Earliest Written Scots Gaelic Found After 1,000 YearsAn aerial photo of the Deer dig site showing the remains of the abbey which appear as a collection of square shaped ruins within a field enclosed by trees. The site is located within a T shape network of roads and a small farm building is visible in the bottom right hand side of the image.

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Long-Lost Monastery And Home Of Earliest Written Scots Gaelic Found After 1,000 YearsAn aerial photo of the Deer dig site showing the remains of the abbey which appear as a collection of square shaped ruins within a field enclosed by trees. The site is located within a T shape network of roads and a small farm building is visible in the bottom right hand side of the image.
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Long-Lost Monastery And Home Of Earliest Written Scots Gaelic Found After 1,000 Years

clock-iconNovember 21, 2023
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How The Faces Of 3 Medieval Scots From The “Cradle Of Christianity” Were Revealedcolorized reconstruction and 3D scan of the face of Bishop Walter of Whithorn, an elderly white man with balding head

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How The Faces Of 3 Medieval Scots From The “Cradle Of Christianity” Were Revealedcolorized reconstruction and 3D scan of the face of Bishop Walter of Whithorn, an elderly white man with balding head
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How The Faces Of 3 Medieval Scots From The “Cradle Of Christianity” Were Revealed

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400-Year-Old Prosthetic Hand Reveals Medieval Doctors Had Some Impressive SkillsX-ray image of medieval prosthetic hand

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400-Year-Old Prosthetic Hand Reveals Medieval Doctors Had Some Impressive SkillsX-ray image of medieval prosthetic hand
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400-Year-Old Prosthetic Hand Reveals Medieval Doctors Had Some Impressive Skills

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Rare Christian Tattoo Found On Medieval Body In AfricaReconstruction of the tattoos on the right foot. The image was captured with a full spectrum camera and digitally enhanced using ImageJ software with a DStretch plugin.

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Rare Christian Tattoo Found On Medieval Body In AfricaReconstruction of the tattoos on the right foot. The image was captured with a full spectrum camera and digitally enhanced using ImageJ software with a DStretch plugin.
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Rare Christian Tattoo Found On Medieval Body In Africa

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New Digital Maps Reveal The Most Lethal Social Group In Medieval OxfordA photo of a medieval style grotesque in the form of a lion-headed winged create on the side of a building with a murky misty background showing a building.

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New Digital Maps Reveal The Most Lethal Social Group In Medieval OxfordA photo of a medieval style grotesque in the form of a lion-headed winged create on the side of a building with a murky misty background showing a building.
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New Digital Maps Reveal The Most Lethal Social Group In Medieval Oxford

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Medieval Whaling May Have Sent Two Species To ExtinctionWhale fin emerging from water

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Medieval Whaling May Have Sent Two Species To ExtinctionWhale fin emerging from water
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Medieval Whaling May Have Sent Two Species To Extinction

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First Facial Reconstruction Of Person With Dwarfism Who Lived 1,000 Years Ago1,000-year-old dwarf face reconstructed

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First Facial Reconstruction Of Person With Dwarfism Who Lived 1,000 Years Ago1,000-year-old dwarf face reconstructed
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First Facial Reconstruction Of Person With Dwarfism Who Lived 1,000 Years Ago

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The Medieval World's Most Terrifying Weapon Is Still A Mystery TodayImage from an illuminated manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, showing Greek fire in use against the fleet of Thomas the Slav

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The Medieval World's Most Terrifying Weapon Is Still A Mystery TodayImage from an illuminated manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, showing Greek fire in use against the fleet of Thomas the Slav
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The Medieval World's Most Terrifying Weapon Is Still A Mystery Today

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