History & Archaeology

When the racists called for a fight

Black students faced the wrath of white women following the desegregation in the United States. (Image: gmast3r / iStock) Racist female power: a historian...

Witch defense instead of a sundial?

Incised symbol on one of the church stones. (Image: HS2) Excavations on the remains of a medieval church in England have uncovered several graffiti...

Dog diversity as early as the Paleolithic

Skull of an approximately 11,000 year old dog. (Image: EE Antipina) Researchers present new insights into the age-old common history of dogs and humans:...

Egyptian ink with “dry” secret

Writing on a papyrus from the Tebtunis Temple Library. (Image: Papyrus Carlsberg Collection) Surprising ingredient discovered: lead apparently already ensured that writing in some...

The Maya already used water filters

View of the center of Tikal. (Image: Leonid Andronov / iStock) The Maya could have used an amazingly modern technology of water filtering more...

On the trail of Bronze Age cattle farmers

Exposed burial mound in the Caucasus region. (Image: Anatoliy Kantarovich, DAI Eurasia Department) How did the people of the Caucasus region live in the...

Mysterious ball games 3000 years ago

One of the 3000 year old leather balls from China. (Image: UZH) Surprisingly early in ancient China people played with leather balls, according to...

Trading post on an islet

Archaeologists have discovered ceramics of interesting origins on the headland of the small island of Tavolara off Sardinia. (Image: Travel Wild / iStock) Traces...

Archaeologists discover 59 intact sarcophagi

Some of the sarcophagi discovered in Saqqara. (Image: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Archeology) Archaeologists have already made several impressive finds in the Egyptian...

Entanglement in slavery revealed

Many structures and masterminds made the international human crime of slavery possible. (Image: Historical illustration of a slave ship, Grafissimo / istock) The example...

Bird mummies: wild animals or farmed animals?

A sample is taken from a mummified buzzard. (Image: Romain Amiot / LGL-TPE / CNRS) They symbolized the gods Thoth and Horus: ibises and...

Neanderthals: Replaced Y chromosomes

For the first time, the Y chromosome of Neanderthals and Denisovans could now also be examined. (Image: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology) New trace of...

Violence and bloody rituals among the steppe warriors

1700-year-old skeletons of South Siberian steppe nomads from the Tunnug 1 site. (Image: Tunnug 1 Research Project) For the ancient historians, the steppe nomads of...

Man reached Arabia 120,000 years ago

The first human footprint discovered at Lake Alathar and the corresponding digital elevation model (Image: Stewart et al., 2020) The Arabian Peninsula forms a bridge...

Viking genetics unraveled

Many Vikings were likely more brunette than blonde. (Image: Jim Lyngvild) The Vikings have decisively shaped the history of Europe. But who were...

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