Bronze Age skull from the Tollensetal (Image: Stefan Sauer / Tollensetal-Projekt)
In today's northern and central Europe, most people can still digest the milk sugar...
Millet Panicum miliaceum (Image: Wiebke Kirleis / UFG Kiel)
Around 3500 years ago, the early cultures of Europe underwent a profound change: semi-nomads who immigrated...
Around 200,000 years ago, people apparently camped on grass in the Border Cave in South Africa's Lebombo Mountains. (Image: A. Kruger)
Even more than...
Walther von der Vogelweide (left) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (right) were both born around 1170. (Image: Excerpts from the Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse),...
High-resolution sonar image of the UC-47 submarine. (Image: Tolmount Development)
In November 1917, the long streak of luck of the German submarine UC-47 ended:...
Scientists in the newly discovered Johannes tunnel. (Image: Eike Bruns / LBEG)
In the Upper Harz mining area, while renovating an old shaft, workers...
Where did the big building blocks come from? (Image: Andre Pattenden, English Heritage)
Towering giants - the so-called sarsen stones are the most impressive...
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial. (Image: slowcentury / iStock)
The Warsaw Ghetto in 1941 was characterized by hunger, tightness and a deadly plague: typhus. The...