History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

Complex hydraulic systems powered Saladin’s citadel

Parts of a newly discovered medieval water system at the Cairo Citadel. © Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Built in the Middle...
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History & Archaeology

Headless skeleton mystery continues

Excavations at the Vráble site in Slovakia. Archaeologists have now discovered 77 headless skeletons in a ditch in this Neolithic settlement. © Nils...
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History & Archaeology

Mammoth discovery turns out to be a Stone Age cold case

This tusk comes from a mammoth skeleton discovered near Regensburg. © Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation Cold case: A mammoth skeleton...
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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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