History & Archaeology

Antikythera Mechanism planet indicator unraveled

New reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism (Image: 2020 Tony Freeth) The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered in an ancient shipwreck in 1901, is considered to be the...

Secret of constant blaze of color revealed

Fermented wool prevented the Pazyryk carpet from fading, according to analyzes of fiber samples embedded in epoxy resin. (Image: FAU / Dr. Andreas...

“Faustina” returns to her homeland

The "Faustina" baptized antique woman's head. (Image: Universalmuseum Joanneum / B. Schliber-Knechtl) In 1967 the artistically crafted marble head of a woman was found...

Sealed letter “virtually” opened

The “virtual unfolding” of this letter provided an insight into written communication and its form at the end of the 17th century. (Image:...

Neanderthals: indication of language skills

Reconstruction of the hearing system in a modern human (left) and a Neanderthal man (right). (Image: Mercedes Conde-Valverde) How did our archaic cousins ​​communicate...

Archaeologists discover a Roman float

The four-wheeled ceremonial carriage at the site. (Image: Parco Archeologico di Pompei) In recent years, excavations in a suburb of ancient Pompeii have repeatedly...

Dated rock painting through wasp nests

This picture of a kangaroo was made in northwest Australia over 17,000 years ago. (Image: Illustration: Pauline Heaney) Researchers have identified a two-meter-tall kangaroo...

Wine production also flourished under Islamic rule

Amphora made in Palermo in the 9th to 11th centuries. (Image: University of York) When Sicily fell under Islamic rule in the ninth century,...

Pre-Columbian imports from Europe

These glass beads made in Venice reached northern Alaska before 1492. (Image: Courtesy of American Antiquity, January 2021) Even before America's discovery, Venetian glass...

“Dress rehearsal” discovered for Stonehenge?

Stonehenge may have been built on the pattern of older stone circles in Wales. (Image: luxizeng (/ iStock) The stone circle at Stonehenge in...

Stone Age snail horn sounds after 18,000 years

Prehistoric shell of the sea snail Charonia lampas. (Image: C. Fritz / Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Toulouse) People made music as early as the...

Why the second wave was worse

Army members during the Spanish flu in a Swiss hospital. (Photo: A. & G. Zimmermann, Geneva / Archives for Medical History, University of...

Finds at the Porta Westfalica

Among the finds from the Migration Period are a brooch with two stylized animal figures (left) and a cast needle in the shape of...

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