History & Archaeology

Regensburg: A city administration in the Nazi era

View of Regensburg today. © DERO2084/ iStock How does a city administration...

Pompeii: Small house – great art

This fresco from the newly discovered house depicts a scene from the mythological story of Phaedra and Hyppolytus. © Parco Archeologico di Pompei ...

Laser scanning reveals large Mayan city

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a sprawling Mayan city in the Mexican rainforest. © Marcello Canuto / Tulane University ...

On the trail of early sedentary behavior

View of the Svinjarička Čuka site during the excavations in 2024. © M. Börner/ÖAI/ÖAW ...

Mysterious Silk Road cities in sight

LIDAR data illustrates former building structures in the city of Tugunbulak. ©SAIElab/J.erner/M.Frachetti Astonishingly...

Celtic burial chamber discovered

Reconstruction of the burial mound with a representation of the burial chamber and the robbery tunnel. © State Office for Monument Preservation in the...

A charivari from late antiquity?

Late antique belt pendant in the grave and drawing of the ensemble. © Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation ...

AI helps detect new Nazca earth images

This human figure is around 18 meters tall and is one of the Nazca geoglyphs that have now been rediscovered with the help of...

Ancient Egyptian splendor brought to light

Restoration work in the central room of the Edfu Temple. In the foreground you can see a replica of the barge that was once...

Tracing violence among Vikings

A broken skull testifies to interpersonal violence in Viking communities. © Lisa Mariann Strand ...

Neanderthal line was isolated for 50,000 years

This close-up shows the jaw and teeth of the Neanderthal "Thorin" discovered in France. © Ludovik Slimak ...

Suicides and “revenants” on the Galgenberg

Burial of a man with stones on his upper body on the former Galgenberg in Quedlinburg. © State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology...

Roman camp discovered at 2200 meters altitude

View of the ancient camp site, high in the Swiss Alps © Andrea Badrutt, Chur ...

A 2,500-year-old astronomy observatory

These coins and small objects were found in the observatory of the Temple of Buto. © Egypt Supreme Council of Antiquities ...

Tracing post-Roman transformation

Representation of the wedding of the Queen of the Lombards with the Duke of Turin in 590. © Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain ...

Altar stone came from Scotland

The altar stone of Stonehenge now lies across two larger sarsens. © English Heritage ...

Saqqara: Did water help build the Pyramid of Djoser?

The Djoser pyramid and its surroundings were part of a complex water system. © Paleotechnic, Landreau et al./ PLOS ONE, CC by 4.0 ...

An otter figurine made of mammoth ivory?

Although the head is broken off, the shape of the small ivory carving is reminiscent of an otter. © Ria Litzenberg/University of Tübingen ...

Pompeii: Earthquake victims in the crosshairs

These dead apparently died as a result of a wall collapse in a building in Pompeii caused by an earthquake. © Archaeological Park of...

Severe plague epidemics in the Stone Age?

Genetic traces of plague pathogens were discovered in dead bodies from Neolithic burial sites in southern Scandinavia. © Karl-Göran Sjögren. ...

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