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Archivists Discover New Stories About King Arthur Hidden in Ancient Book Binding
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN5d
See the Stunning Sapphire Ring Belonging to a Medieval Bishop That Just Sold at Auction
Found by a metal detectorist in England, the item features a sapphire surrounded by two emeralds and two stones that are ...
Weasel testicles infertility cure features in exhibition on medieval medicine
Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.
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MERLIN’S MEDIEVAL SECRETS
Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at ...
The Independent21d
Rare 13th century artefact found in muddy field to fetch more than £15,000 at auction
She said the village was “extensively detailed in the Domesday Book of 1086 ... late 12th or early 13th century, and is associated with the bishopric”. This type of medieval ring is ...
Evening Standard on MSN21d
Medieval bishop’s ring unearthed by metal detectorist to be sold at auction
A jewelled medieval bishop’s ring that was discovered in a muddy field by a metal detectorist is estimated to fetch more than ...
Lords of the rings: Norfolk metal detecting mates net medieval finds which fetch £20,000 at auction
The two metal detecting mates both found medieval rings which fetched thousands at auction, but their shared hobby also reunited them too. | ITV News Anglia ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation22d
Medieval manuscript in Australia may hold key to mystery of The Lady and the Unicorn masterpiece
In his autobiographical account, The Travels of Marco Polo, the famous 13th-century Venetian explorer ... it at auction in 1920. The 15th-century French "book of hours" — or prayer book ...
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Medieval ring found by detectorist could make £18k
The ring, which dates from the late 12th to early 13th Century ... Book of 1086, and at that time recorded as being within the largest 20% of settlements in England. "This form of Medieval ...