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6. 5. 2017 Skeletons of fallen Hussite warriors

Healed war wounds were discovered by scientists on skeletons in the ossuary in Žehuni. According to experts, they are warriors from the memorable Battle of Lipany, which took place in 1434.

21.11.2003 The steamer was carrying a golden treasure

Twenty thousand twenty-dollar coins were carried by the paddle-wheel steamer Republic, which left New York on October 18, 1865. Two days later, however, a storm hit the ship and its cargo went down. The treasure was not recovered by underwater archaeologists until 2003.

Detectorist finds 2,000-year-old Roman dagger, leads to discovery of unknown battlefield!

An amateur archaeologist using a metal detector has discovered a well-preserved decorated dagger of a Roman soldier from the middle of the 1st century BC. The find brought a team of archaeologists to the site, who subsequently uncovered hundreds of artefacts from the "lost" battlefield on which Roman legionaries fought the Raetians in an attempt to consolidate Roman power in the Alpine region.

6. 10. 1982

6.10.1982 Treasure from the monument

The treasure was placed in the monument to the Napoleonic battle at Přestanov in 1835 by three monarchs. Historians retrieved the box more than a century later. They were surprised...

23. 9. 2009

23 Sep 2009 Artillery fortifications from the 18th century

A field fortification from the eighteenth century was discovered twelve years ago in the Lukášov area of Jablonec. It is the remains of an artillery chance from the period of the so-called Potato War and the Plum Fuss.

1. 8. 1866

1 Aug 1866 Prussian and Saxon soldiers introduced cholera

Almost fifteen hundred people died in the last cholera epidemic that hit Brno 155 years ago. It broke out simultaneously with the invasion of the Prussian army. A total of 2,813 people fell ill.

13. 6. 2011

13. 6. 2011 The oldest battle site from the Bronze Age

Ten years ago, archaeologists discovered a hundred skeletons in the Tollense valley in northern Germany, suggesting a brutal battle between warring tribes. The pierced skulls and broken bones apparently lay on the oldest battlefield ever found. It dates back to the Bronze Age.

19. 4. 2014

April 19, 2014 Trail in the footsteps of the Seven Years' War

They completed a new trail leading in the footsteps of the Seven Years' War seven years ago in Liberec. This first worldwide conflict took place in 1757. Tourists can find one stop, for example, at the Liberec chateau, where there used to be an infirmary.

6. 4. 2017

April 6, 2017 Civil War pistol on the beach

A search engine found a monument to the English Civil War with a metal detector on St Aubin Beach in Jersey. He discovered a rare pistol that has a complex mechanism typical of weapons from the early sixteenth century.

3. 4. 2009

April 3, 2009 Hussite cannonball

Archaeologists found a half-meter cannonball in the historic center of Pilsen twelve years ago. It dates from the fifteenth century and probably belonged to the Hussites. In the past, the city was intensively blasted.

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