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Man with the Golden Bracelet
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Wetwang Chariot Woman
The Wetwang Chariot Woman was an elite Iron Age Briton buried in East Yorkshire around 225 BC, in the world archaeologists call the Arras culture of pre-Roman Britain. She is historically important not because we know her personal name, rank, or family in the way we might for a Roman
Princess of Urdzhar
The so-called Princess of Urdzhar was an elite Iron Age woman buried in eastern Kazakhstan around 423 BC, in the broad cultural world archaeologists call Saka, part of the wider Scythian horizon of the Eurasian steppe. She matters not because we know her personal name, but because her grave speaks
Johannes Corvinus
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Aak of the Frisian Terps
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Belgae Discussion
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Scythians Discussion
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Ostrogoths Discussion
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Gepids Discussion
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Anna Catharina Bischoff
Anna Catharina Bischoff was an 18th-century woman of Basel whose afterlife, if one may put it that way, became unexpectedly public. Her naturally mummified body was found during archaeological work at the BarfĂźsser Church in Basel, and what might once have been a local curiosity became one of Switzerlandâs
Man with the Golden Bracelet
The Man with the Golden Bracelet was one of the Pompeians killed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying the city under ash, pumice, and volcanic debris. He is historically important not because he was an emperor, senator, or general, but because his remains became attached to one ofLatest Articles
Anna Catharina Bischoff
Anna Catharina Bischoff was an 18th-century woman of Basel whose afterlife, if one may put it that way, became unexpectedly public. Her naturally mummified body was found during archaeological work at the BarfĂźsser Church in Basel, and what might once have been a local curiosity became one of Switzerlandâs
Man with the Golden Bracelet
The Man with the Golden Bracelet was one of the Pompeians killed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying the city under ash, pumice, and volcanic debris. He is historically important not because he was an emperor, senator, or general, but because his remains became attached to one of
Wetwang Chariot Woman
The Wetwang Chariot Woman was an elite Iron Age Briton buried in East Yorkshire around 225 BC, in the world archaeologists call the Arras culture of pre-Roman Britain. She is historically important not because we know her personal name, rank, or family in the way we might for a Roman
Princess of Urdzhar
The so-called Princess of Urdzhar was an elite Iron Age woman buried in eastern Kazakhstan around 423 BC, in the broad cultural world archaeologists call Saka, part of the wider Scythian horizon of the Eurasian steppe. She matters not because we know her personal name, but because her grave speaks
Johannes Corvinus
Johannes Corvinus stands at one of those awkward but fascinating junctions in late medieval history where dynastic ambition, aristocratic politics, and sheer bad luck all meet. He was the only known son of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary and Croatia, one of the most formidable rulers of 15th-century Central Europe.
