History & Archaeology

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...

Inscribed Shard Treasure recovered

Left: A potsherd with a receipt for offerings to the temple goddess Repit. Center: One of the possible punishments from using the shards...

Roman Empire’s youngest amphitheater discovered

Aerial view of the exposed arena wall. (Image: Cantonal Archeology Aargau) In the greater Basel area, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Roman...

Lost Schwanenburg located

Left: An archaeologist explores the underground with a magnetometer. Right: Geophysical prospecting reveals traces of the former Schwanenburg. (Images: LWL Archaeology/J. Coolen) After...

Paradox of the Neolithic settlement Pestenacker clarified

Replica of a Neolithic house from the Pestenacker wetland settlement. (Image: Christoph Zielhofer) Around 5,500 years ago, people in the Bavarian foothills of the...

Trace of medieval wine culture

Two oak beams bear witness to a tree press from the 14th century. (Image: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the...

Mayan Decline: Drought alone wasn’t enough

Cassava may have served the Maya as food during dry seasons. (Image: Thamizhpparithi Maari) It is widely believed that climate played a major role...

This Austrian dinosaur probably heard very little

Researchers arrive at surprising new insights about an armored Ankylosaurus: it was slow and deaf. Millions of years ago, several special dinosaurs lived on...

Donkey hybrid bred 4,500 years ago

Hunting wild donkeys in Nineveh, Mesopotamia. (Images: Eva-Maria Geigl / IJM / CNRS-Université de Paris Even before domesticated horses were introduced to Mesopotamia around...

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