History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

Romans used the polybolos multi-shot weapon

At the siege of Pompeii in 89 BC. The Romans could have used an ancient multi-shot weapon in the 1st century BC. A...
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History & Archaeology

Exceptional Bronze Age find in wind turbine construction

These Bronze Age pieces of jewelry are part of a depot find made near Wolfenbüttel. © Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation/...
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Wreck of the “Dannebroge” discovered off Copenhagen

This painting shows a scene from the naval battle of Copenhagen, showing the ships of the Danish defenders. © Johan Jens Neumann/ historical...
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How the Roman conquest of Jerusalem shaped Christianity

Depiction of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem from the Gospels of Otto III. around the year 1000. © Bayerische Staatsbibliothek/PD Without a...
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On the trail of the scent of Pompeii’s domestic altars

This Roman incense bowl from a house altar in Pompeii is decorated with female figures - possibly in memory of a deceased person....
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What pirate gold reveals about African cultural heritage

Akan gold from the Whydah Gally, a former slave ship that sank off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717. © Tobias Skowronek ...
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Predator eats conqueror

Wooden sculpture of a tiger with a human holding a bottle on a blue base. mauritius images / CC BY SA / imageBROKER...
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History & Archaeology

The rule of the court physician

When the doctor Johann Friedrich Struensee was recruited by the Danish court to care for the mentally ill King Christian VII, no...
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History & Archaeology

Dikes or soft ones!

An age-old theme of human activity is gaining new importance with climate change and rising water levels: living with and protecting from...
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History & Archaeology

The most beautiful mountain in the world

The Japanese call Mount Fuji unique, and it is also considered exceptionally beautiful abroad. But it took centuries before the iconic mountain...
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History & Archaeology

Anglo-Saxons came by ship instead of on foot

The Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The battle on the Bayeux Tapestry is depicted, here is an...
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Turbulent times

When Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone, the future Francis of Assisi, was growing up, the church was confronted with religious reform movements....
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“Elite prisoner” Kurt Schuschnigg

Photo by Kurt Schuschnigg from 1946, around a year after his release. akg-images / UIG / RDB by Dukas Kurt Schuschnigg was...
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Of absent men and energetic women

Inscriptions like this one (2nd century BC, Butrint) were made on the occasion of the release of slaves by their owners and provide...
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History & Archaeology

Bones in Otto the Great’s tomb actually come from the emperor

The sarcophagus of Otto the Great in the choir of Magdeburg Cathedral. © Andrea Hörentrup/State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt ...
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Democracy has broader roots than expected

View of a square in Teotihuacan. This pre-Columbian culture was probably more democratically organized. © Linda Nicholas/Field Museum Ancient Greece and Rome...
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More than 43,000 ancient “notes” discovered

Two ancient ostraca from Athibis, one with a list of names in demotic script (left), the other with a drawing of a shrew,...
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Archimedes Palimpsest: Lost page tracked down

The recovered page 123 of the Archimedes palimpsest. © Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Inv. 73.7.52. Photography IRHT-CNRS In the ninth century, a...
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Animals in the service of the Nazi regime

Disciplined, loyal and always ready for action: service dogs were portrayed as the epitome of soldierly virtues. Anon., This is what you are,...
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Archbishop and folk hero

When Makarios Kykkotis became Archbishop of Cyprus, he immediately committed himself to the course of his predecessors: Cyprus should be separated from...
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