The first Viking raid on England or Francia

A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe

Here’s a little thing that narks me every now and then. This comes up occasionally in teaching, where I can set it straight, occasionally someone is wrong about it on the Internet (which never ends well) but I was quite surprised to find a related version in a certain large book I’m still sporadically making my way through, and that has me worried enough to set out my thinking. The thing in question is a supposed fact, the dates of the first Viking attacks on the kingdoms of Western Europe.

[Edit: a very cogent point from Julia Barrow in comments has meant I’ve seriously overhauled this paragraph and the next. Further edit: there has also developed in the comments a very erudite dispute about what exactly Alcuin was thinking when he wrote the letters I mockingly pastiche in what follows, and if that is likely to…

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5 Facts About the Vikings in England — The Historic England Blog

A quick introduction to the Viking Age in England.

5 Facts About the Vikings in England — The Historic England Blog

Funde offenbaren Rezepte zur Mumifizierung — grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de

Lesezeit: ca. 3 Minuten Tübingen (Deutschland) – Funde von Gefäßen aus einer Mumifizierungswerkstatt im ägyptischen Sakkara erlauben Forschenden neue Einblicke auf die chemischen Substanzen, die zur Konservierung, Mumifizierung menschlicher Körper verwendet wurden. Wie das deutsch-ägyptische Forschungsteam der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), der Universität Tübingen und des National Research Center in Kairo aktuell im Fachjournal „Nature“ (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05663-4)…

Funde offenbaren Rezepte zur Mumifizierung — grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de

Sumerian Gods: February/March — Neptune’s Dolphins

Since the Sumerian year starts at the Spring Equinox, the period starting from the Winter Solstice could contain from three to four months. The lunar months of the calendars of the cities have to fit within the solar year of equinoxes. The fourth month (intercalary) was usually inserted by a decree from the King. In […]

Sumerian Gods: February/March — Neptune’s Dolphins

Jungle Realm of the Snake Queens

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Babylonian Gods: February/March — Neptune’s Dolphins

Since the Babylonian year starts at the Spring Equinox, the period starting from the Winter Solstice could contain from three to four months. The lunar months of the Babylonian calendar have to fit within the solar year of equinoxes. The fourth month (intercalary) was usually inserted by a decree from the King. In the Standard […]

Babylonian Gods: February/March — Neptune’s Dolphins

Grand Neolithic Homes Dating Back 5,800 Years Found in Northern Ireland

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‚The Domestication of Britain‘- Dating the Early Neolithic (4000 – 3500BC) in Britain

These Bones Of Mine

The Early Domestication of Britain

In the latest edition of the British Archaeology magazine (July August 2011), there is an exciting article on new research that is helping to shed light on new perspectives of the early neolithic in Britain.  The article, by Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy & Alex Bayliss, details how the team have commissioned new radiocarbon dates from various monuments of the early neolithic in Britain.  This has helped to  produce a detailed and clearer chronology of  how farming and new associated technologies & monuments (in this case causewayed enclosures) first spread throughout these isles.  For the first time in British archaeology the results have shown in depth how prehistoric events can be discerned at the generational level in the archaeological record.

The aim of this study is to refine the early Neolithic period in British prehistory.  The method used involved using 400 new and…

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Silbury Hill, Beckhampton, Wiltshire

The Journal Of Antiquities

SU1000 6850. Silbury Hill is a man-made chalk and clay mound beside the A4 road, 1 mile southeast of Beckhampton. It dates from the Neolithic period of prehistory some 4,700 years ago. This famous conical-shaped hill is 130 feet high or 40 metres and, with its wide outer circular ditch, which is most noticeable at the eastern side and quite often filled with water in wet spells of weather, it covers a total area of about 5 acres (2 hectares). The base of the hill covers 167 metres, while the flat-topped surface is about 100 feet in diameter.

The first phase of building here began in 2,500 BC followed by, perhaps, another three phases of work; thousands of local workers were employed in the construction of the mound which was built in the form of a pyramid in steps or tiers – the steps being cut sarsen stones from nearby quarries. Then these…

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Auf den Spuren der Etrusker

La mia toskana Blog

Die Geschichte der Etrusker ist uns nur in groben Zügen bekannt. Die schriftlichen Aufzeichnungen sind nicht ausreichend und die archäologischen Funde, wie reich und faszinierend sie auch sein mögen, helfen uns nicht, die Ereignisse dieser großen Nation zu rekonstruieren. Die etruskische Kultur hat ihren historischen Platz im neunten und achten Jahrhundert v. Chr.

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