Warsaw Ghetto Memorial. (Image: slowcentury / iStock)
The Warsaw Ghetto in 1941 was characterized by hunger, tightness and a deadly plague: typhus. The...
Stone tools from the Chiquihuite cave, around 30,000 years old. (Image: Ciprian Ardelean)
America is the last continent that humans settled. But when...
The mammoth ivory “chisels” were probably used for various purposes around 38,000 years ago. (Photo: Maria Malina, University of Tübingen)
In use 38,000 years...
Archaeological finds from the Lendbreen: Preserved cattle feed, stake and spider-rock. (Image: Glacier Archeology Program / J. Wildhagen)
Mountain passes were of great importance thousands...
Aerial view of one of the circular structures on the Göbekli Tepe. (Image: Gil Haklay / AFTAU)
Even hunters and gatherers were amazingly sophisticated architects,...
Excavations in the Bacho-Kiro cave in Bulgaria. (Image: Tsenka Tsanova, CC-BY-SA 2.0)
When did the first representatives of Homo sapiens reach Europe? Finds from a...
Replica of a medieval longbow in use. (Image: Emilija Randjelovic / iStock)
The English longbow archers were feared in the Middle Ages - and rightly...
A Bronze Age skull find in Lake Constance. (Image: Tobias Pflederer, Bavarian Society for Underwater Archeology e.V.)
Was there a hitherto unknown settlement on the...
"Closing schools!": Newspaper article in The Morning of October 7, 1918 (Image: Austrian National Library Vienna, ANNO | www.anno.onb.ac.at)
Measures such as social distancing, school...
Koprolite (fecal stones) from a locality in China. (Image: Jada Ko, courtesy of the Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology)
Archaeological treasures of...
Homo heidelbergensis hunting with a throwing stick. (Image: Benoit Clarys)
Hand axes and other stone tools from our ancestors are often found in archaeological excavations....
The power center of the Calusa was an impressive building on an artificial elevation, which is said to have accommodated 2000 people. (Image: Merald...
The German Atlantic Expedition began in 1925 with the research ship "Meteor". (Image: DSM)
The German Atlantic Expedition in the 1920s was a milestone in...
The approximately 6.2 mm long and 0.5 mm wide cord fragment in a close-up. (Image: C2RMF)
Ropes and ropes were already integral parts of Neanderthal...
The flood savannah in the lowlands of Bolivia is littered with small forest islands. (Image: Umberto Lombardo)
Researchers report that thousands of forest islands in...