History & Archaeology

‘Armless’ dinosaur discovered in Argentina

The beast may even be closely related to the ancestors of all Abelisauridae: dinosaurs with arms so short that they were essentially useless. The...

Jewish pendants discovered near Sobibor . gas chambers

Jewish victims were forced to leave the pendants, along with their remaining jewelry and clothing, shortly before entering the gas chambers. During excavations in...

Mysterious monumental complexes in sight

Aerial view of the "crowned" Ngerbuns el Bad earthworks on the Palau island of Babeldaob. © C. Hartl-Reiter Huge terraces, crowned by "Green Pyramids":...

Plague was not that bad in some parts of Europe

The Black Death did not cause huge numbers of deaths everywhere, a pollen study shows. The current pandemic is certainly no fun, but...

The history of the accommodation

© stock.adobe.com, CIGI #295865591 Hotels, hostels, holiday homes and the like – they are all an indispensable part of people’s everyday lives in the 21st...

Crocodile with dinosaur in its stomach discovered in Australia

It seems that the primeval beast before taking his own life first feasted on an unfortunate baby dinosaur. Australian scientists have found the remains...

Even the Romans used “mobile toilets”

Roman chamber pot and whipworm egg. © Roger Wilson/ Sophie Rabinow For a long time, the conical clay vessels discovered in many Roman...

Our distant ancestors already constructed a worldwide web

In recent years guest editor Rob Oele has conducted extensive research into human origins. Specially for Scientias.nl he summarizes the most important...

Gripping plea

Two pioneers of science, the anthropologist David Gräber and the archaeologist David Wengrow, reinterpret human history: nothing about it is predetermined, the course of...

‘Dinosaurs also had a cold sometimes’

This is evidenced by unusually bony protrusions discovered on the neck of an excavated long-necked dinosaur. Possibly 'the cold' even killed the...

Historical lecture notes discovered

Left: This depiction of a human skull was made by Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay as an illustration for Carl Gegenbaur's lecture notes. Left: Drawing of...

Historical map reveals land grab

William Clark's rediscovered map, the arrow marks the "boundary" he marked. (Image: National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC) A researcher has discovered a...

New evidence found that flying reptiles also produced pellets

Difficult to digest food was possibly thrown out again by the pterosaurs. Researchers write that in the magazine Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

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