History & Archaeology

On the trail of black pudding and yak milk

Such metal vessels were once widespread among the Eurasian steppe nomads. © Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan & Bruce Worden ...

SED injustice: Trauma still has an impact today

View over the border strip at the Eichsfeld Borderland Museum. © Nico Schneider/ Uniklinikum Jena ...

Twin brothers as sacrifices to the gods

El Castillo, also known as the Temple of Kukulcán, is one of the largest buildings in Chichén Itzá. Not far from this pyramid is...

First bishop’s palace of Merseburg discovered

View of the southern interior wall in the basement of the Merseburg Martinikurie. The 11th century masonry is still preserved to its full height...

VR view of the ruins of Uruk

View of the digital twin of Uruk city center. © Max Haibt/ DAI Orient Department ...

Sleep properly – Why the body needs rest

Sometimes research is at a dead end: all the hypotheses that could be formulated from the existing evidence about an unexplained problem have been...

Ötzi – The Iceman

A more precise analysis of the genetic makeup of the glacier mummy Ötzi provides new insights into the appearance and genetic origins of the...

Gravitational waves and black holes

Astronomers have demonstrated for the first time that the universe is filled with a background "hum" of very long-wave gravitational waves... more For the first...

Laser scans are intended to detect illegally traded ivory

Elephant and mammoth tusk samples. © Ben Booth Despite an international ban,...

Lost books from Grimm’s private library

First edition of "Simplicissimus" from the library of the Brothers Grimm with their handwritten annotations. © Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań ...

Mayan ball games on sacred ground

Such stone rings served as a kind of goal in Mayan ball games. Image: Chichen Itza, © LanaCanada/iStock ...

AI gives contemporary witnesses of the Holocaust a voice

Abba Naor was born in Lithuania in 1928 and reports as a Jewish Holocaust survivor ...

Ancient fortification was also a sanctuary

Remains of stairs at the base of the seasonal waterfall of Rabana-Merquly. © Rabana-Merquly Archaeological Project ...

Earliest human presence in Europe dated

View over the Korolevo quarry in western Ukraine. The oldest evidence of early humans in Europe was found here. © Roman Garba ...

Antique counterpart to barbed wire

The structure made of sharpened wooden posts was discovered in surprisingly good condition and was subsequently recovered. © Goethe University Frankfurt / Frederic...

Mysterious foundations discovered on Fraueninsel

Aerial view of Frauenwörth Abbey with a visualization of the former Romanesque building. © BLfD Does the history of the famous Frauenwörth Abbey need to...

Encyclopedia on the Nazi genocide of Sinti and Roma goes online

This historical photo from Asperg in Baden-Württemberg shows the deportation of Sinti and Roma to Poland. © Federal Archives R 165 Image-244-42/ CC-by-sa...

Robert Koch, as his wife saw him

How did Hedwig Koch (here with Robert Koch in a photograph from 1908) look back on her marriage? AKG/Science Photo Library ...

What was left of Doggerland

On the trail of the past: The modern reconstruction of a Neanderthal brings us closer to our ancestors. ENTER PROOF HERE ...

“MeToo” already existed in the Middle Ages

Representation of the biblical story of Susanna, who is sexually harassed by two elders and falsely accused when she refuses. © Biblia Sancti...

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