History & Archaeology

China: Who created the Quina stone tools?

Some of the stone tools found in Longtan in southern Chinese. It assigns its shape and processing sequence to Central Paleolithic Quina technology. ©...

Bones of the real “Schinderhannes” identified

The portrait shows the "Schinderhannes". Genetic analyzes now also enabled the determination of his actual eye, hair and skin color- as well as the...

Discovered empty grave of an unknown pharaoh

Entrance to the newly discovered pharaoh grave in the necropolis Abydos (left) and view into the empty burial chamber. © Ministry of Tourism and...

Oldest facial fossil of Europe discovered

Fossil from the Sima del elefante cave (right) and digitally mirrored second half of the face. © Maria D. Guillén / Iphes-Cerca, Elena Santos...

Rapid stones document rural ideas in Europe

Goseck ribbon, belonging together by lower trailer and runner from a deposit. © J. Soldevilla/ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology...

Royal Royal Royal Shake tracked down

Bayeux's wall carpet shows King Harold while riding to Bosham, where he visits the church and celebrates in a hall before leaving to France....

Where Central Asia met Europe

A coat clasp in the style of the Central Asian Avars excavated in Mödling, Austria © MPI-EVA/ Benedict Seidl (benedicts.1995@gmail.com) ...

Pre-human Australopithecus was still primarily a vegetarian

Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein and drawing of one of the molars analyzed for the study. © Bernhard Zipfel/University of the Witwatersrand; Dom Jack/Max Planck...

Lithuanian-Polish royal crowns recovered

This 500-year-old crown had been hidden in the crypt of the Vilnius Cathedral since the beginning of the Second World War. Only now has...

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