History & Archaeology

“My God, what did we do”

Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the "Enola Gay", scribbled these words into his notebook on the morning of August 6, 1945. Minutes earlier, the...

Everything just individual offender?

Bavarian Interior Minister Gerold Tandler at a press conference on September 28, 1980 shortly after the Oktoberfestattary. AKG-Images / picture-alliance / Frank Leonhar A new study...

The invisible backbone of diplomacy

A ambassading procession accompanied by Ottoman dignitaries on the hills of the Pera district in Istanbul (1725). AKG images A look at everyday life in the...

A 4000 year old handprint on a soul house

Handprint on the underside of a 4000 -year -old Egyptian soul house made of sound. © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Around 4000 years...

The disappeared empire

Charlemagne had brought half of Europe under his control. The next generations divided the legacy, the Lotharreich named after Emperor Lothar I was created....

3000-year-old bronze time settlement in Saxony-Anhalt discovered

Irregular settlement burial in the newly discovered Bronze Age settlement of Wolmirstedt. © State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt/ Juliane...

The man who was Robinson Crusoes model

The Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk spent four years and four months on a lonely Pacific island at the beginning of the 18th century. The...

A special cultural landscape

The Oderbruch Museum Altranft is an ideal entry to approach this landscape, which was designed in the 18th century by drying, historically and touristically....

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