History & Archaeology

Diaries of a Genocide

Analysis of Lothar von Trotha's diaries and photos. © Damian Gorczany/ RUB Between 1904 and 1908 German colonial troops committed genocide against the Herero...

Broken dinosaur wrist discovered in Russia

The hapless dinosaur may have broken his wrist while sprinting. And with that, he suffered a difficult, but not insurmountable injury. An international...

On the trail of the origin of the pile-dwelling boom

Remains of Neolithic crops suggest links between geographically distant pile-dwelling settlements. © Raul Soteras In the Neolithic Age, the famous settlements on stilts stood...

Large impact crater on Greenland does not appear to be a silent witness of human suffering

Fortunately, the crater was created long before the first humans populated the earth. In 2015, researchers in northwestern Greenland stumbled upon a bizarrely large...

Ancestors of the octopus appear to have had not eight, but ten(!) arms

Researchers have come to that conclusion after examining a ten-armed, 328-million-year-old ancestor of the octopus. It turns out to be a species unknown to...

On the trail of Venus von Willendorf

Researchers have gained insight into the material of the famous Paleolithic statuette through micro-CT scans. Left image © NHM Vienna, Alice Schumacher, right...

Europeans mummified their dead much earlier than thought

'mummies' have been found in a Portuguese cemetery, dating from about 8,000 years ago. We knew that the Egyptians mummified their dead. But...

‘Stonehenge was a solar calendar with autocorrect’

If an error crept in while reading the calendar, it was automatically corrected on the shortest and longest day. When you think of megalithic...

Amazing burial place of a slave

By analyzing bone samples, researchers have unearthed information about an astonishingly modern dead from a Stone Age burial site. © Rita Peyroteo Stjerna,...

‘Forgotten continent discovered in southeastern Europe’

Get to know Balkanatolia: a forgotten continent that, according to an international team of researchers, radically changed the European animal kingdom millions of...

Camp for German prisoners of war discovered in England

Rank insignia of a German soldier and German pistol from the POW camp. © Wessex Archeology Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a World...

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