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See the secret Knights Templar caves beneath a Shropshire field | Shropshire Star

From the linkThe Caynton Caves, hidden in dense woodland near Shifnal, were apparently carved out of sandstone by followers of the Knights Templar.


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A Roman Sarcophagus Is Rescued from Humble Duty as a Flower Pot - NYTimes.com

I mean it's not like they were using it anymore, plus it'll match the exterior.
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Radical motets from a 16th-century nunnery | Music | The Guardian

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A newly unearthed collection of choral music is unlike any other music of its time. Who composed it? All the evidence points to the youngest daughter of Lucrezia Borgia

The article also has some of the songs via Soundcloud. Amazing.
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Hoard of Roman coins found at former burial site in Gelderland - DutchNews.nl



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A hoard of coins dating from the final days of the Roman Empire has been found in an orchard in Gelderland. Experts believe the fortune was buried by a Frankish military leader in the second half of the fifth century, when the area was part of the Western Roman Empire, which collapsed in 476AD. Some of the 41 gold pieces unearthed in Lienden, near Veenendaal, bear the image of Majorian, one of the empire’s last rulers, who reigned for four years from 457. ‘On that basis we think this treasure was buried in around 460,’ said Nico Roymans, professor of archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
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You couldn't even wait a day to enposte that could you. You monster.
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Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say.

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Ansar Dine spokesman Sanda Ould Bamana told the BBC that his movement had now completed nearly 90% of its objective to destroy all mausoleums that are not in line with Islamic law.

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The 55-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference said in a statement that the sites Ansar Dine had attacked were "part of the rich Islamic heritage of Mali and should not be allowed to be destroyed and put in harm's way by bigoted extremist elements".
BBC News - Timbuktu's Sidi Yahia mosque 'attacked by Mali militants'

That is some undiplomatic language btw. Not that I disagree, it's just unusually strong language coming from the Islamic countries condemning Muslim extremists. Especially considering that this is standard Wahhabi procedure, they did the same thing to Shi'ite and Sufi shrines in Saudi Arabia and Qatar when they came to power in SA in the early 20th century. So I'm frankly amazed the Saudis supported this statement.
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Endangered archives blog: A new chapter in the story of Timbuktu’s manuscripts: Sample digitisation of materials from the Infa Yattara Family Library

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Timbuktu librarians duped Al Qaeda to save books | New Republic
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An additional aim of the project has been to document the history of the collection in order to better contextualize how this new chapter in its biography marks both a continuation of its relationship to furthering knowledge, and the establishment of new forms of engagement with publics that could never have been imagined by those individuals who had initially put pen to paper.
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An additional aim of the project has been to document the history of the collection in order to better contextualize how this new chapter in its biography marks both a continuation of its relationship to furthering knowledge, and the establishment of new forms of engagement with publics that could never have been imagined by those individuals who had initially put pen to paper.
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Palmyra artifacts recovered by Syrian Army



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SANA added that the stolen statues were handed over to the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums, as these ancient artifacts date back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D.
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Political, but also lots of history.

Tweet threat on the history of Haiti.

Zach Carter on Twitter: "Haiti was one of the richest colonies in the world. In 1789, Haiti produced 75% of the world’s sugar and was the leading producer of cotton."
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Quick! Post ALL THE HISTORY while The History Blog, a blog about history is out of action due to "inclement" weather.
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History not-history ...

BBC - Travel - The last surviving sea silk seamstress
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OMG, it’s your birthday!

Well, a few weeks ago.
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Found: Viking Clothes With 'Allah' Embroidered in Silk - Atlas Obscura
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Lasers reveal ancient Mayan civilization hiding beneath Guatemalan canopy - UPI.com

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The hundreds of houses, palaces and roads identified by the surveys have offered new insights into the sophisticated organization of the Mayan civilization at the height of their cultural and political dominance between 250 and 900 AD.
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America's largest pirate mass burial site has been discovered after 300 years, with more than 100 bodies offering clues to the crew's infamous exploits.

Archaeologists believe the site is the last resting place of Captain 'Black Sam' Bellamy's crew, who drowned when their pirate ship, the Whydah Gally, was wrecked at sea in 1717.

The body of Bellamy, thought to be the richest pirate that ever lived, was never accounted for but around 100 of his crew were recovered and given a land burial in Massachusetts.
America's largest mass pirate burial ground uncovered after 300 years
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Campaign to save World War II stretchers today serving the capital as railings



From the linkAfter the war, there was a huge stockpile of the stretchers. Because so many railings had been removed before 1939 to help fuel the manufacture of munitions and other weaponry, many city estates had lost their perimeter fencing. And, with the new drive to build council houses, new railings were needed.

So, the stretchers were welded vertically together and fixed on poles, often sunken into concrete on a small wall. Today, they can be found at Kennington Park Estate, the Glebe Estate in Camberwell and on estates in Deptford and Dulwich.



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