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A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Purse May Reveal How People Paid When Rome’s Coins Ran Dry
A Roman purse found in a fifth-century grave at Oudenburg in Belgium may preserve a rare glimpse of everyday life at the moment when Rome’s small change stopped being enough. At first, the object did not look like much. It was a compact lump of corroded metal, earth and mineralized textile, recovered from Grave A-104…
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A Medieval Village Hidden Beneath a Belgian Town Center Kept Its Shape for 1,000 Years
A medieval village plan has been found beneath the modern center of Denderleeuw in East Flanders, revealing how a moated residential compound shaped the Belgian town’s layout for nearly 1,000 years. The discovery was made during archaeological excavations near the local church, where researchers uncovered traces of a 10th-century settlement surrounded by a moat. The…
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Dozens of Medieval Cannonballs Found Beneath Future Civic Building in Belgium
Dozens of medieval cannonballs have been discovered beneath the site of a future Administrative Centre in Nieuwpoort, Belgium, revealing how one modern construction plot preserved traces of defence, civic life and war across several centuries. Archaeologists working in Nieuwpoort-Stad, between the historic Stadshalle and Willem De Roolaan, uncovered a depot of natural-stone cannonballs, medieval building…
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A Glimpse of Compassion in a Medieval Brothel: Belgian Discovery Challenges Centuries-Old Assumptions
An extraordinary archaeological discovery in Aalst, Belgium, sheds new light on the lives of medieval sex workers, revealing a forgotten story of motherhood and care in the unlikeliest of places — a 14th-century brothel. 📍 Aalst, Belgium — A recent scientific investigation into a baby’s remains uncovered at a medieval brothel site is rewriting long-standing…