Top Articles: This Week A Year Ago

The best AO articles from the same week last year.... [View web version]( [Premium Discounts]( | [Contact](mailto:info@ancient-origins.net?subject=Top%205%20last%20year%20message) [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Hastein: A Notoriously Vicious Viking Raider…Not So Good At Navigation --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Described as “fierce, mightily cruel, and savage, pestilent, hostile, sombre, truculent, given to outrage, pestilent and untrustworthy, fickle and lawless” by his contemporaries, Hastein was one of the most successful, and infamous, Vikings of all time (despite sacking one wrong city)... [Read more...]( Discoveries in Spanish cave suggest Neanderthals had hot water and bedrooms --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Archaeologists in Spain have made a number of discoveries inside an ancient cave in Catalonia which suggest that Neanderthals had hot water and separate living quarters around 60,000 years ago. The finding adds to the mounting evidence that Neanderthals were a lot more sophisticated than... [Read more...]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Taj Mahal is wasting away, and it may soon hit the point of no return --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- The saying goes that the Taj Mahal is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening, and golden when the moon shines. Though this may once have been true for the famously pristine marble monument, a mixture of pollution and poor management has now burdened the Taj with a 24-hour layer of yellowy-brown... [Read more...]( Ironclad Hoof: Unique Roman Horse Shoes Found on Hadrian’s Wall --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- The BBC is reporting an exciting find on the famous Hadrian’s Wall in the North of England. Four Roman era horseshoes were unearthed during a planned dig at the site of the ruined Vindolanda fort. While the find is not the most dramatic, it is an exciting one as there have been relatively few horseshoe sets found and... [Read more...]( You Might Like [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( You have received this email because you have subscribed to [Ancient-Origins.net](. Copyright © 2019 [Stella Novus Limited]( - [Ancient Origins]( [Unsubscribe Here](