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The mystery of Rat Island’s skeletons

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 7 July 2021 - Categories: Archaeology, Operation Nightingale

The element of secrecy and security that surround most Ministry of Defence sites lends them an air of mystery. A result of this is that many of them are also associated with urban myths – some more believable than others.

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Dreamer’s Bay: Ancient Remains in Cyprus

Posted by: Prof Simon James, Posted on: 22 July 2019 - Categories: Archaeology
A group of archaeologists around the remains of a low stone wall on a clifftop. Behind them is the sea and a curving coastline.

Regular blog readers will know that there is an annual cycle of archaeological excavations at the Dreamer’s Bay site at RAF Akrotiri. The Ancient Akrotiri Project team, which is overseen by DIO and led by the University of Leicester School …

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The MOD and Me: A view from the (archaeological) trench

Posted by: Phil Abramson, Posted on: 2 December 2013 - Categories: Archaeology

...mentioned to the press that, as a child, she remembers her father taking her to the woods and showing her the trenches in which he trained before being sent to...

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