History & Archaeology

The Celts and Romans already operated mining in the Montafon

View of the Montafon valley and excavations at the western end of the Knappagruaba. (Image: Rüdiger Krause / Goethe University Frankfurt) Ores were mined...

DNA confirms Sitting Bull’s great-grandson

Photograph of Sitting Bull and his lock of hair. (Images: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Eske Willerslev) Sioux chief Tatanka-Iyotake, better known as...

Origin of the Tarim mummies revealed

One of the natural mummies from the Tarim Basin. (Image: Wenying Li / Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology) Since numerous naturally preserved...

The first dinosaurs were much more social than thought

These prehistoric animals probably lived 40 million years earlier than thought in real herds. It is known that some dinosaurs that roamed the earth during...

Footprints Prove Humans Walked Around America 23,000 Years Ago

The footprints are the first undisputed evidence that humans were already found in the Americas during the so-called Last Glacial Maximum. Researchers write that in...

Torte as a contemporary witness of an air raid

Inspection of the cake that was buried in the air raid in 1942. (Image: Hanseatic City of Lübeck) In Lübeck, archaeologists have uncovered an...

It’s now official: the infamous Vinland map is fake

The map – which suggested that the Vikings already visited the New World before Columbus – appears to date not from the fifteenth, but...

Controversial Trachilos Prints Turn Out Even Older Than Thought

The human-like footprints found on Crete are believed to be at least 6 million(!) years old, according to new research. In 2017, scientists announced that...

Prehistoric ski discovered in melting ice

The ski complements a similar one that was already discovered in 2014. Together they form the best-preserved pair of skis known to us...

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