What Lies Beneath? Finding North America’s lost medieval city
What Lies Beneath? Finding North America’s lost medieval city At the time of its existence, this city was larger than Paris or London and housed about 30,000 citizens. This is around the size of Juneau Alaska today (if you include the surrounding boroughs). If this estimate is correct, It was the largest city in the United … Continue reading What Lies Beneath? Finding North America’s lost medieval city
Mass grave of Viking army contained slaughtered children to help dead reach afterlife, experts believe
Mass grave of Viking army contained slaughtered children to help dead reach afterlife, experts believe A mass grave of Viking warriors found in Derbyshire was accompanied by slaughtered children in a burial ritual enacted to help the dead reach the afterlife, archaeologists believe. Experts from the University of Bristol have reexamined a huge pit of bones uncovered … Continue reading Mass grave of Viking army contained slaughtered children to help dead reach afterlife, experts believe