History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

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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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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Iron Age ritual on the Bruchhauser stones?

Archaeologists made these Iron Age finds on one of the Bruchhauser stones: quartz, tapping stone, hatchets and a stone slab used for chopping....
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“Make your calculations with heaven, Vogt…”

“… you have to go, your clock is running out.” Friedrich Schiller put these words into the mouth of the Swiss national...
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Humanity in all its facets

The German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, once founded as a place to educate people about healthy living, today offers deep insights into...
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Film diva and inventor

Hollywood marketed her as “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” But Hedy Lamarr was not only beautiful, but also smart. During World War...
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Did the oldest human ancestor come from the Balkans?

In Bulgaria, researchers have discovered the 7.2 million year old femur of an early, upright walking hominid (left). Next to it are the...
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Rock chamber with 22 sarcophagi discovered

View of the sarcophagi discovered in the rock chamber. © Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities On the banks of the Nile opposite...
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Matings between humans and Neanderthals were gender specific

The Neanderthals left traces of DNA in our genome - albeit with noticeable gaps. © gorodenkoff/ iStock Early modern humans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals. Most...
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A massacre of women and children 2,800 years ago

2,800 years ago, 77 people, mostly women and children, were murdered in the Carpathian Basin, but were then carefully buried. © Linda Fibiger et...
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Stone Age characters from the Swabian Alb could be forerunners of writing

This figure from the Geißenklösterle cave in the Swabian Alb is around 38,000 years old and decorated with rows of dots. © Landesmuseum Württemberg...
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A Bronze Age princely tomb in Normandy

These flint arrowheads are typical grave goods of the Armorican burial mound culture for high-ranking dead. © Emmanuelle Collado/ INRAP Archaeologists have discovered a Bronze...
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A Viking-era mass grave with a “giant”

Archaeologists uncovering the mass grave from the Viking Age. © Cambridge Archaeological Unit/David Matzliach The English city of Cambridge lies in a border area that...
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