Did Thames Wreck take on the Armada?

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The submerged wreck of a massive Elizabethan merchant ship, thought to be one of the English vessels that fought the Spanish Armada in 1588, was discovered in the estuary of the Thames. Huge timbers discovered since mid-2003 indicate that the vessel was one of the largest Armada-period English merchant craft ever built and it might be the 'Royal Merchant', a historically important and one of the longest-surviving merchant ships of its period.

Spain, History, Protection and preservation, Collections and collecting, Merchants, Watercraft, Wreck, Thames

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The executioner's moat

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During the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries the excavations in a medieval moat around Oxford Castle have so far yielded the remains of sixty to seventy criminals, mostly men who were executed. The archaeologists have also found the remains of a child about twelve years old who appears to have been hanged and buried face down with the bottom half of his legs bent back as if they had been tied to his upper legs.

Criminals

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Pre-Christian rituals at Nazareth

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The Nazareth cult site, uncovers the remains of strangely decorated human skulls, and the evidence for unusual, complex burials. The discovery of lime kilns at the site, suggests that the plaster used for sealing were manufactured on-site.

Israel, Mortuary practice, Evidence, Lime-kilns, Lime kilns, Nazareth, Israel

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