History & Archaeology

Haithabu: Hoard with gold jewelry discovered

These golden earrings were buried at Haithabu 800 years ago. © ALSH Around 800 years ago, a traveler buried gold jewelery and around 30 silver...

Bow and arrow 54,000 years ago

This stone arrowhead is around 54,000 years old. © Laure Metz/ Ludovic Slimak The invention of the first firearms such as the bow and arrow...

Laser treatment for medieval cathedral

View of the Halberstadt Cathedral. © Wlad74/ iStock The Halberstadt Cathedral is one of the few Gothic cathedrals in the French architectural style in Germany,...

Friedrich Daniel Bassermann – Level-headed string puller

Friedrich Daniel Bassermann was elected to the National Assembly in the Franconian constituency of Stadtprozelten. The 37-year-old Mannheim publisher's bookseller had considerable parliamentary experience....

Encrypted letters of Mary Stuart discovered

Mary Stuart after a portrait by François Clouet. club/iStock A famous author is emerging: “Codebreakers” have identified 50 encrypted letters from a French archive as...

How Poker Has Evolved Over The Last Decade

Poker has experienced a seismic shift in popularity over the past decade. Once considered to be mostly played by professional gamblers, it is now...

Largest collection of cuneiform texts digitized and published

A tablet with a Babylonian text fragment in cuneiform. © LMU 300,000 lines of text from ancient Mesopotamia, including previously unknown versions of the Epic...

Insight into mysteries of mummification

Artist's impression of mummification in ancient Egypt. © Nikola Nevenov What substances were used in embalming, how were they used and where did they come...

Vikings: With horse & dog across the North Sea

Excavations at a Viking burial mound in England. © Julian Richards, University of York. Supposedly they only stole their mounts after landing in England. But...

Iraq: Sumerian ‘tavern’ discovered

Excavations in Lagash, in front the area of ​​the tavern with oven, refrigerator and benches. © Lagash Archaeological Project ...

Violence in early peasant societies

Map of north-west Europe showing archaeological sites with evidence of violence-related injuries on Neolithic skeletons (red) and cases with evidence of collective violence (blue)....

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