History & Archaeology

Digital map shows Roman road network

Many Roman highways were marked by milestones, such as a recently discovered milestone in Cilicia, Turkey. © Itiner-e In ancient times, Roman roads were important...

Alan Cannon - November 7, 2025

History & Archaeology

A monumental Mayan building as a cosmogram

Topography of the Mayan monumental structure Aguada Fénix in Mexico. © Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona The approximately 3,000-year-old Mayan site of Aguada Fénix in Mexico...

Alan Cannon - November 6, 2025

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Detector finds Saxony’s oldest coin

This Celtic gold coin discovered near Leipzig from around 2,200 years ago is the oldest coin discovery in Saxony. © State Office for Archeology...

Alan Cannon - November 4, 2025

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Archaeologists discovered a warning letter from Assyria to the king of Judah

This cuneiform fragment, which is around 2,700 years old, comes from a warning letter from Assyria to the Kingdom of Judah. © Eliyahu Yannai/City...

Alan Cannon - October 31, 2025

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The museum with properties

The border region in the south of Austria with Italy and Slovenia is a European literary stronghold, and its center is the Musil Museum...

Alan Cannon - October 30, 2025

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From monastery to orphanage

The use and conversion of the “Monastery of Adelheid” in the Freiburg suburb of Günterstal shows what different purposes a huge building complex built...

Alan Cannon - October 30, 2025

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What diseases were common in Napoleon’s army?

Napoleon and his army retreating from the Russian campaign in 1812. © historical; Barbieri et al./Current Biology During the retreat from French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's...

Alan Cannon - October 28, 2025

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Detector finds silver treasure from Roman times

These silver coins, which are around 2,000 years old, are part of the discovery made by a detectorist in the Hildesheim district. © Bartels,...

Alan Cannon - October 24, 2025

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The Hanging Gardens of… Nineveh?

In the oldest surviving list of the seven wonders of the world, which is preserved in the form of an epigram by Antipater of...

Alan Cannon - October 23, 2025

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The last drama of the revolution

François Noël Babeuf failed with a conspiracy that, in his eyes, was the last attempt to save the French Revolution. For the first time...

Alan Cannon - October 22, 2025

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Roman burial mound uncovered in Bavaria

This stone circle discovered in Wolkertshofen, Upper Bavaria, was once the foundation of a Roman burial mound. © Archeology office Dr. Woidich GmbH. In the...

Alan Cannon - October 21, 2025

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Victims of the first war in Europe?

The severe head injuries are clearly visible in this skull from the Tollense Valley. picture alliance / Jens Büttner / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa / Jans...

Alan Cannon - October 20, 2025

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Stone Age hunting traps discovered on the Adriatic

In Europe too, Stone Age hunters apparently built stone walls to drive game into a trap. © Gennaro Leonardi/iStock On a karst plateau on the...

Alan Cannon - October 16, 2025

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Oldest jewelry workshop in Europe discovered

Left: Reference collection of shells of the sea snail Littorina Obtusata, which was collected on October 8, 2016 on the Beach of Men-Du (Brittany)....

Alan Cannon - October 2, 2025

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Fossil footprints from Neandertalers found on the Algarve

Photos of two of the fossil footprints in Portugal. Left: Monte Clérigo. Right: Telheir. © de Carvalho et al., DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-06089-4/CC-BY 4.0 ...

Alan Cannon - September 30, 2025

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