Millet Panicum miliaceum (Image: Wiebke Kirleis / UFG Kiel)
Around 3500 years ago, the early cultures of Europe underwent a profound change: semi-nomads who immigrated...
Around 200,000 years ago, people apparently camped on grass in the Border Cave in South Africa's Lebombo Mountains. (Image: A. Kruger)
Even more than...
Walther von der Vogelweide (left) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (right) were both born around 1170. (Image: Excerpts from the Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse),...
High-resolution sonar image of the UC-47 submarine. (Image: Tolmount Development)
In November 1917, the long streak of luck of the German submarine UC-47 ended:...
Scientists in the newly discovered Johannes tunnel. (Image: Eike Bruns / LBEG)
In the Upper Harz mining area, while renovating an old shaft, workers...
Where did the big building blocks come from? (Image: Andre Pattenden, English Heritage)
Towering giants - the so-called sarsen stones are the most impressive...
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...