"It is one of the best and most revealing post Roman sites in the country.”
An Anglo-Saxon burial ground with 138 graves found along the route of new high-speed rail line HS2 is one of the largest ever uncovered in the UK, experts have said.
A skeleton with a weapon embedded in it, jewellery and weapons were among the finds in Buckinghamshire, England, at the site which dates back to the 5th Century.
A number of objects likely to have been used for grooming were also found, including toiletry sets with ear wax removers and toothpicks, tweezers, combs and even a cosmetic tube that might have been used as eyeliner or similar.
Archaeologist Rachel Wood said the site's significance for the "historical and archaeological understanding" of Anglo-Saxon Britain was "huge".
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One July night in 1860, on a remote river bend just north of Mobile, Alabama, the last-known American slave ship went up in flames.
At the behest of a wealthy Mobile businessman and slaveholder named Timothy Meaher, who had wagered a bet that he could smuggle enslaved people into the U.S. undetected, Captain William Foster had just sailed the 86-foot wooden vessel Clotilda from the port of Ouidah, in present-day Benin, back to the United States. Aboard were 110 captive Africans—even though the international slave trade had already been outlawed in the U.S. for more than 50 years.
Once the enslaved people were hastily unloaded under the cover of darkness, Foster set fire to the ship, sinking Clotilda in an attempt to destroy all that remained of the horrific crime that the captain and the businessman had just committed.
This week, I was in Mobile, Alabama to speak with scientists who have recovered artifacts from inside Clotilda's sunken hull, including charred timbers, that directly point to the fiery coverup of the crime more than 160 years after it was committed.
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In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to an earth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belongs to an old testament queen. News and his find ricocheted around the world. One hundred and fifty years later, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries, archaeologists and zealots, all eager to extract the big look up past from beneath the city streets. Their efforts have shed light on the history of Jerusalem as well on the tightly disputed present.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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