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Large Roman cemetery discovered at Netherlands highway site

A secret dig at the site of a new section of the A15 motorway has yielded a large Roman cemetery but no clues as to the provenance of its occupants, government roads department RWS announced this wee…

Research reveals origins of Middle Ages altarpieces

It was previously believed that altarpieces from the late Middle Ages were made in Germany. New research shows that several of them were made in Norway. “The altarpieces were the most elevated elemen…

15th century 'pot of gold' found during excavation near Dutch city

A pot containing some 500 silver and gold coins was found during excavation work near the Dutch city of Vianen. The coins date from the 15th century, RTV Utrecht reports. Credit: Astrid Pel/AD The po…

13,500-year-old carved bison bone fished from the bottom of the North Sea

The oldest Dutch work of art is a 13,500 year-old carved bison bone dredged up from the bottom of the North Sea, archaeologists write in an article published in Antiquity magazine earlier this week.…

6,000-year-old skeletal remains of woman holding baby found in Netherlands grave

A 6,000-year-old baby with its teeth still intact and resting in the arms of a woman, believed to be its mother, has been found in a grave in the Netherlands. The grave dates back to the Stone Age an…

Gay relationships are still criminalised in 72 countries and punishable by death in 8, report finds

After three years of stonings and executions from rooftops, first LGBT unit fights ISIS in Syria

Dutch-Russian cyber crime case reveals how the police tap the internet

About how signals intelligence agencies, like NSA and GCHQ, are intercepting communications, we learned a lot from the Snowden revelations, the German parliamentary inquiry, but also from new legisla…

UFO Over Soesterberg Air Base

A Netherlands witness at Soesterberg recalled a UFO encounter in the military from 1991 that left him traumatized, according to testimony in Case 74907 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witne…
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