History & Archaeology

Oldest jewelry workshop in Europe discovered

Left: Reference collection of shells of the sea snail Littorina Obtusata, which was collected on October 8, 2016 on the Beach of Men-Du (Brittany)....

Fossil footprints from Neandertalers found on the Algarve

Photos of two of the fossil footprints in Portugal. Left: Monte Clérigo. Right: Telheir. © de Carvalho et al., DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-06089-4/CC-BY 4.0 ...

Why did industrialization began in the UK?

Great Britain developed into the mother country of industrialization in the 19th century and was considered the leading one around the middle of...

Celtic traditions until Roman times

These burial mounds in Upper Losers follow Celtic traditions, but were created in Roman times in the middle of a Roman cemetery. © Klaus-Peter...

Founded in the Zeltspital

The German order was a straggler among the large order of knight compared to Templern and Johannitern. It was founded in 1190 during the...

Residence made of brick

On the Nogat River, the Order Knight built an impressive castle that was the long seat of the Grand Master. To this day, the...

Excavations reveal monastery life at the time of the peasant wars

Archaeological excavations at the Kaltenborn 2025 monastery, bird's show from the southeast. © State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Robert...

Wrack find in the North Atlantic

On September 1, 1985, an American-French research team under Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of the luxury steamer "Titanic", which was sunk in 1912....

The man who photographed Adolf Hitler

Heinrich Hoffmann, Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler on the terrace of the Berghof am Obersalzberg when viewing photographs. National Archives and Records Administration Heinrich Hoffmann created...

Victim of the Iron Curtain

Border facilities between Austria and Czechoslovakia on March (photo from 1989). Picture Alliance / Brandstaetter Images | Votava Numerous people died across the borders of the...

Constant freedom

A geopolitical curiosity at first glance, a place of superlatives with closer look: San Marino is the oldest and with a good 61 square...

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