This arsenic bronze sword is around 5,000 years old. (Photo: Ph.Andrea Avezzu / Ca Foscari University of Venice)
For decades, one of the oldest swords...
Livestock farming created complex interactions between animals, humans and bacteria. (Image: Annette Günzel)
Herding instead of hunting: The development of livestock farming made life...
Different types of early humans mated with each other (Image: 1971yes / iStock)
The history of our ancestors is becoming increasingly complex. Because now, in...
Historical helmets in the pressure test. (Photo: Op 't Eynde et al./PLOS ONE, CC-by-sa 4.0)
Since the First World War, soldiers have been protecting their...
Ribs and spine of the Neanderthal skeleton Shanidar Z. (Image: Graeme Barker)
In the 1950s, the discovery of several Neanderthal remains in the Shanidar Cave...
Sign alphabet from 1873. (Image: traveler116 / iStock)
Sign languages ​​for the deaf exist today in almost all countries and regions. Linguists have now reconstructed...
The most impressive remnant of the city of Cahokia is the truncated pyramid "Monks Mound". (Image: MattGush / iStock)
The mysterious North American Indian...
African-born people also carry Neanderthal DNA. (Image: ljubaphoto / istock)
When our ancestors left Africa, a story of infidelities began: Genome analyzes prove that anatomically...
Stone platform and moai in Ahu Nau Nau on Easter Island. (Image: Robert DiNapoli)
Huge stone figures, massive ritual platforms: The culture of Rapa Nui...
Historical illustration of the German colonial era in Africa. (Image: Nastasic / iStock)
They were in charge - but how did the German colonial masters...
The unknown primitive emerges like a shadow. (Image: borchee / iStock)
The Neanderthals and the Denisova people "mixed in" with the Europeans and Asians. Similar...