History & Archaeology

AI decodes ancient manuscripts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh4xuZc-4So This makes information from historical documents more easily accessible: The University of Innsbruck reports on the platform "transcribus“, which uses artificial intelligence to written...

Laurels for the pioneer of paleogenetics

Svante Pääbo is fascinated by the genomes of the representatives of the human family tree. © Karsten Möbius, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary...

Beer from 1885 tasted and analyzed

In the focus of science: Germany's oldest surviving beer. © Barre Private Brewery After almost 140 years, it still tasted good and revealed secrets: scientists...

On the trail of Anglo-Saxon migration

These three skeletons, discovered in Cambridgeshire, are of early medieval women, each with varying proportions of Aboriginal and Anglo-Saxon heritage. © Duncan Sayer,...

Cynical mass murderers instead of mere followers

While orchestrating the deaths of thousands upon thousands of people, Franz Stangl presented himself as a jovial dandy in a snow-white uniform. ©...

Andean mummies reveal brutal murders

Male and female pre-Columbian mummy from southwestern Peru. © AM Begerock, R Loynes, OK Peschel, J Verano, R Bianucci, I Martinez Armijo, M...

A whaler at the end of the world

Only a few beams and planks remain from the 19th-century shipwreck. © U. Sokolowicz In Patagonia, archaeologists have discovered a shipwreck that turns out to...

On the trail of anatomical crossing clues

Early anatomically modern humans (left) and Neanderthals. © Gleiver Prieto, K. Harvati It is well known that we are a bit Neanderthals: the traces of...

1400-year-old folding chair discovered

The remains of the folding chair's iron frame were recovered in the block. © BlfD Archaeologists report an unusual grave find in Middle Franconia: In...

Seasonally dated destruction

View of the excavation area with the remains of the city of Nysa-Scythopolis. © German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project ...

Monks especially had a lot of parasites

Bones of monks buried in Cambridge in the Middle Ages. © Cambridge Archaeological Unit Actually, the monks were privileged in the Middle Ages, because monasteries...

Early medieval double grave discovered

The two graves are in the center of a circular structure, which suggests a former burial mound. © AAB, Stephan Weber, State Office...

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