Digital reconstruction reveals Conquest Man’s face
The face of a man who lived through the Norman Conquest has been digitally reconstructed
August 31, 2026
The face of a man who lived through the Norman Conquest has been digitally reconstructed
Archaeologists working at Walīla, the medieval city built on the site of ancient Volubilis in Morocco, have identified a carved stone game board inside a public bathhouse dating to the early Islamic period. The find offers rare evidence of leisure activities in North Africa between the late eighth and tenth centuries CE.
On a flat dry lakebed in Death Valley National Park, heavy rocks sit at the end of long grooves they have plowed across the mud.
Researchers have uncovered a 9th century copy of the oldest known poem written in old English here.
