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Writing the Illiad – date confirmed : Past Horizons Archaeology

Writing the Illiad – date confirmed : Past Horizons Archaeology | Archaeology News | Scoop.it

Homer’s Iliad, the ancient retelling of the Trojan wars, is one of the great masterpieces of literature, but historians have long debated exactly how old this great work is. Researchers have applied evolutionary-linguistics in order to analyse the differences in vocabulary between modern and historical texts.

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Divers find ruins from Viking 'marketplace' - The Local

Divers find ruins from Viking 'marketplace' - The Local | Archaeology News | Scoop.it
Divers off the coast of Birka, an ancient Viking village near Stockholm, have uncovered 100 metre long jetties suggesting a coastal marketplace that was not previously imagined.
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