Researchers are investigating whether a cow shed in Conwy, Wales, may be the oldest home in the country, dating back to the 14th century. The style and use of a cruck frame – a tree trunk used to support a roof – leads some specialists to think a building used as a cow shed and [...]
: : Medieval News Medieval News Daily source of news about pre-modern history Saturday , February 04, 2012 Halstead : Future of medieval church secured by restoration The future of a historic medieval church has been secured after the completion of a long-term project to structurally restore . it St Barnabas Church , in Alphamstone , was originally built in the 14th century and is a Grade One listed . building Churchwarden Charles Dinwiddy said : The main concern was that the church was shifting a little bit and while we were investigating that we discovered the roof needed . repair The work done has also managed to stop damp coming in . Click here to read this article from the Harwich and Manningtree Standard Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Labels : Churches
: Medieval News Medieval News Daily source of news about pre-modern history Thursday , February 02, 2012 Second oldest case of Prostate Cancer discovered in Egyptian mummy Recent radiological findings led by experts from the American University in Cairo may potentially dispel the long held-belief that cancer is a man-made , modern-day disease . With the diagnosis of the first real case of prostate cancer in a mummy , researchers say the causes of cancer may be more genetic than was originally . thought The study , published in the International Journal of Paleopathology and conducted in Lisbon’s National Archaeology Museum , initially examined three mummies through the use of X-rays and advanced computerized tomography scans . Those of M1, a male Ptolemaic Egyptian mummy , were
A Byzantine cemetery in Istanbul’s Çatalca district has been repeatedly plundered for years. Who knows what history has been lost as a result? “Grave diggers have swarmed into the region when the excavation work in the cemetery came to an end in 1995 upon the order of the Archeology Museum. Unlicensed excavations take place inside [...]
The remains of 17 women killed under General Francisco Franco’s regime in 1937 are being exhumed from a mass grave in Spain. Since the exhumation began last week, the remains of 14 of the 17 women have been discovered at the cemetery in the southwestern town of Gerena, said 25-year-old Lucia Socam, whose great-aunt Granada [...]
The Spiro PD has been cleared to market by FDA for the use by a patient to test lung function in
children, adolescents, and adults, the product’s developer, PMD Healthcare, announced.
Prostate cancer has been discovered in an Egyptian mummy which dates back 2,200 years. AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday the mummy was of a man who died in his forties. She said this was the second oldest known case of [...]
Archaeologists working in Sudan have found a long-lost temple which dates back to the Meroe period. The large temple compound is situated 130 km northwards of Khartoum. European travellers saw the remains of the temple in the early 19th century but then the temple disappeared in the desert, said Onderka who leads the Czech archaeology [...]
Researchers believe a mass grave found in Cambridge in 2009 contains the bodies of 54 decapitated viking mercenaries. Unlike the frenzied mob attack that took place at Oxford, all the men were murdered methodically and beheaded in an unusual fashion from the front. The Cambridge academic said she believed the skeletons belonged to a group [...]
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