History & Archaeology

Empire was not an “age of security”

Kaiser Wilhelm II and entourage. (Image: clu / iStock) It was considered the "Belle Époque" and the age of security ": In retrospect, the...

Dance to the rhythm of rattling elk teeth

Rhythmic movements with sound effects: Stone Age hunters and gatherers in today's northwestern Russia once danced to the rattling sound of elk-tooth followers. ...

2000 year old basilica was once the largest in Israel

View of the former location of the basilica. (Image: Emil Aladjem / Israel Antiquities Authority) The Israeli city of Ashkelon was an important trading...

How the reformatory got into print

As is well known, printing was of central importance for the course of the Reformation. A historian sheds light on the role played...

Ongoing conflicts instead of Stone Age war

Two dead from Jebel Sahaba. (Image: Wendorf Archives / British Museum) Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Jebel Sahaba burial ground in Sudan...

“Scrap” with purchasing power

Metal fragments like these finds from the Tollensetal in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania could have served as money in the late Bronze Age. (Photo: Volker...

How Angkor has developed

Angkor Wat temple. (Image: RM Nunes / iStock) Using archaeological excavation data, historical reports and maps, and modern laser scanning results, researchers have modeled...

The oldest burial in Africa

Reconstruction of the dead child and its bones. (Photo: Fernando Fueyo, Jorge González / Elena Santos) When did our ancestors begin to bury their...

“Pestilence” turns out to be paratyphoid

Lübeck was apparently struck by a paratyphoid epidemic in the 14th century. (Photo: Dirk Rieger, Hanseatic City of Lübeck) What pathogens were behind the...

Voices of the Holocaust survivors in focus

David P. Boder (center) was the first to record the testimonies of displaced persons. (Image: IIT Chicago / Paul V. Galvin Library) In 1946,...

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