History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

How the Fall of Rome Shaped the Genetic Landscape of Europe

The genome of these three brothers, who were buried around 1,300 years ago in what is now Ergoldsbach in Bavaria, reveals not only...
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History & Archaeology

Scarlet fever was not introduced by Europeans

Burial towers in the Bolivian Andean highlands. The mummy was found in one such chullpa. © Juan Gabriel Estellano Until now, scarlet...
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History & Archaeology

From the Holy Land to the Lower Rhine

Linn Castle owes its floor plan, which is still exceptional in the region, to the enthusiasm of a young crusader for Byzantine...
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History & Archaeology

The man with 100 hands

In the 4th century B.C. A whole series of momentous changes took place in Rome in the 4th century BC. At the...
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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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