History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

D-Day in Morocco

Foreign legionnaires from all countries, colonial troops from West Africa, German poison gas, international supporters and weapons, imperial cooperation: the Rif War...
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History & Archaeology

Accounting of life

Coat of arms of the Rem family (Augsburg Chronicle, 1457). Augsburg State and City Library, 2 Cod H 1, p. 251 The...
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History & Archaeology

A round pool for the river god

View of the water temple of Pelusium. © Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The ancient city of Pelusium played an important role...
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History & Archaeology

Egyptian mummy with Homer text as afterlife reading

This embalmed papyrus was discovered on the belly of an ancient Egyptian mummy. An excerpt from Homer's "Iliad" can be read on it....
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History & Archaeology

Shakespeare’s house located in London

The famous poet William Shakespeare bought property in London in 1613. Where exactly this was is only now clear. © historical In...
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History & Archaeology

Buried fortune

Eight golden coins with Roman portraits and Latin inscription. picture alliance / dpa / Friso Gentsch The Kalkriese region northeast of Osnabrück...
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History & Archaeology

A poor princess as a good match

The Palatinate emerged from the Thirty Years' War as a battered and impoverished principality. Charles I Ludwig, the father of Elisabeth Charlotte...
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History & Archaeology

Romans used the polybolos multi-shot weapon

At the siege of Pompeii in 89 BC. The Romans could have used an ancient multi-shot weapon in the 1st century BC. A...
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History & Archaeology

Exceptional Bronze Age find in wind turbine construction

These Bronze Age pieces of jewelry are part of a depot find made near Wolfenbüttel. © Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation/...
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History & Archaeology

Wreck of the “Dannebroge” discovered off Copenhagen

This painting shows a scene from the naval battle of Copenhagen, showing the ships of the Danish defenders. © Johan Jens Neumann/ historical...
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History & Archaeology

How the Roman conquest of Jerusalem shaped Christianity

Depiction of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem from the Gospels of Otto III. around the year 1000. © Bayerische Staatsbibliothek/PD Without a...
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History & Archaeology

On the trail of the scent of Pompeii’s domestic altars

This Roman incense bowl from a house altar in Pompeii is decorated with female figures - possibly in memory of a deceased person....
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History & Archaeology

What pirate gold reveals about African cultural heritage

Akan gold from the Whydah Gally, a former slave ship that sank off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717. © Tobias Skowronek ...
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History & Archaeology

Predator eats conqueror

Wooden sculpture of a tiger with a human holding a bottle on a blue base. mauritius images / CC BY SA / imageBROKER...
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History & Archaeology

The rule of the court physician

When the doctor Johann Friedrich Struensee was recruited by the Danish court to care for the mentally ill King Christian VII, no...
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History & Archaeology

Dikes or soft ones!

An age-old theme of human activity is gaining new importance with climate change and rising water levels: living with and protecting from...
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History & Archaeology

The most beautiful mountain in the world

The Japanese call Mount Fuji unique, and it is also considered exceptionally beautiful abroad. But it took centuries before the iconic mountain...
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History & Archaeology

Anglo-Saxons came by ship instead of on foot

The Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The battle on the Bayeux Tapestry is depicted, here is an...
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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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History & Archaeology

“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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