History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

Ötzi’s microbiome: It lives in the glacier mummy

The 5,300-year-old glacier mummy “Ötzi” is a unique testimony to the past. But how well is it protected from microbial decomposition today? ©...
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History & Archaeology

A look into the tomb of a queen

This detail from the sarcophagus of the Aragonese Queen Elisenda shows her with a crowned head. However, after her death, the noblewoman was...
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History & Archaeology

With mercury medicine against leprosy

Bones of a dead person from the Middle Ages buried in a French leprosy hospital. © Fiorin et al./ Journal of Archaeological Science,...
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History & Archaeology

Cheops Pyramid: secret of earthquake safety revealed

Since it was built more than 4,500 years ago, the Great Pyramid of Cheops has survived even strong earthquakes with virtually no damage....
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History & Archaeology

Aschaffenburg: Iron Age building amazes archaeologists

Detail of the complex discovered on the banks of the Main, consisting of a mortared stone wall and massive wooden beams. © Bavarian...
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History & Archaeology

Pompeii: Dead man from refugee garden was doctor

Plaster cast of one of the dead from the “Garden of the Refugees” in Pompeii. A box hidden inside the sink reveals that...
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History & Archaeology

At the point between heaven and earth

Flammarion's wood engraving - first published in L'atmosphère, Paris 1888. akg images The French astronomer Camille Flammarion made this supposedly medieval wood...
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History & Archaeology

The crime that shocked America

On March 1, 1932, the son of the aviator hero Charles Lindbergh, who was not even two years old, disappeared without a...
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History & Archaeology

Lost world of pharmacy

“… ask your doctor or in your pharmacy”: In keeping with the presto rattled off final sentence of medication advertisements, today’s pharmacy...
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History & Archaeology

Jerusalem: Centuries-old tunnel raises questions

Archaeologists discovered this probably centuries-old tunnel on the southern edge of Jerusalem. What it was used for is unclear. © Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiques...
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History & Archaeology

Manuscript rediscovered from the Bibliotheca Palatina

Cover of the rediscovered codex from the Bibliotheca Palatina. © Heidelberg University Library After a good 400 years: A manuscript from the...
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History & Archaeology

Neanderthals: Using the stone drill to combat tooth decay

The fossil Neanderthal molar from all sides. The deep hole in the chewing surface was probably created with a stone drill to remove...
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History & Archaeology

Shipwreck turns out to be a freighter sunk by Francis Drake

Some ships of the Spanish Armada were already destroyed by Sir Francis Drake in the Bay of Cadiz. A Genoese merchant ship also...
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History & Archaeology

Four more dead from the Franklin expedition identified

Historical depiction of the HMS Erebus, which froze in the Arctic ice during the Franklin Expedition. © François Musin, Royal Museums Greenwich ...
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History & Archaeology

Largest coin find from the Viking Age in Norway

These are just a few of the more than 3,100 coins from the Norwegian hoard. © Florent Audy / Museum of Cultural History...
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History & Archaeology

The end of freedom

View of the GDR women's prison Hoheneck, taken in December 1989. picture alliance / ZB / Wolfgang Thieme Around 24,000 women were...
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History & Archaeology

Battlefield prison island

On May 2, 1946, a failed breakout attempt developed into the “Battle of Alcatraz”. The Coast Guard and Marines arrived and the...
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History & Archaeology

How the Fall of Rome Shaped the Genetic Landscape of Europe

The genome of these three brothers, who were buried around 1,300 years ago in what is now Ergoldsbach in Bavaria, reveals not only...
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History & Archaeology

Scarlet fever was not introduced by Europeans

Burial towers in the Bolivian Andean highlands. The mummy was found in one such chullpa. © Juan Gabriel Estellano Until now, scarlet...
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History & Archaeology

From the Holy Land to the Lower Rhine

Linn Castle owes its floor plan, which is still exceptional in the region, to the enthusiasm of a young crusader for Byzantine...
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