History & Archaeology

Enigmatic foot belonged to primitive Australopithecus species

These 3.4 million year old jaw fragments and bone pieces come from the prehuman Australopithecus deyiremeda. © Yohannes Haile-Selassie/Arizona State University In 2009, researchers in...

Wine press documents the beginnings of wine production in Israel

One of the oldest wine presses in the world, discovered during an excavation in Israel. © Yakov Shmidov, IAA In northern Israel, archaeologists have unearthed...

Muslim necropolis discovered at the bottom of Lake Issyk Köl

Kristina Guseynova from the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences with part of an ancient jug. © Elizaveta Romashkina Archaeologists have...

Grave field illuminates the beginnings of the Bavarians

The “Bavarian Princess” in her richly furnished grave near Bad Füssing © Office of Archeology Neupert, Kozik & Simm A burial ground in Bad Füssing,...

Hidden cavities in the Menkaure pyramid

The Pyramid of Menkaure, here in the foreground, is the smallest of the three pyramids at Giza. © oversnap/ iStock The pyramids of Giza are...

Digital map shows Roman road network

Many Roman highways were marked by milestones, such as a recently discovered milestone in Cilicia, Turkey. © Itiner-e In ancient times, Roman roads were important...

A monumental Mayan building as a cosmogram

Topography of the Mayan monumental structure Aguada Fénix in Mexico. © Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona The approximately 3,000-year-old Mayan site of Aguada Fénix in Mexico...

Detector finds Saxony’s oldest coin

This Celtic gold coin discovered near Leipzig from around 2,200 years ago is the oldest coin discovery in Saxony. © State Office for Archeology...

The museum with properties

The border region in the south of Austria with Italy and Slovenia is a European literary stronghold, and its center is the Musil Museum...

From monastery to orphanage

The use and conversion of the “Monastery of Adelheid” in the Freiburg suburb of Günterstal shows what different purposes a huge building complex built...

What diseases were common in Napoleon’s army?

Napoleon and his army retreating from the Russian campaign in 1812. © historical; Barbieri et al./Current Biology During the retreat from French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's...

Detector finds silver treasure from Roman times

These silver coins, which are around 2,000 years old, are part of the discovery made by a detectorist in the Hildesheim district. © Bartels,...

The Hanging Gardens of… Nineveh?

In the oldest surviving list of the seven wonders of the world, which is preserved in the form of an epigram by Antipater of...

The last drama of the revolution

François Noël Babeuf failed with a conspiracy that, in his eyes, was the last attempt to save the French Revolution. For the first time...

Roman burial mound uncovered in Bavaria

This stone circle discovered in Wolkertshofen, Upper Bavaria, was once the foundation of a Roman burial mound. © Archeology office Dr. Woidich GmbH. In the...

Stone Age hunting traps discovered on the Adriatic

In Europe too, Stone Age hunters apparently built stone walls to drive game into a trap. © Gennaro Leonardi/iStock On a karst plateau on the...

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