History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

Where Central Asia met Europe

A coat clasp in the style of the Central Asian Avars excavated in Mödling, Austria © MPI-EVA/ Benedict Seidl (benedicts.1995@gmail.com) ...
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Pre-human Australopithecus was still primarily a vegetarian

Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein and drawing of one of the molars analyzed for the study. © Bernhard Zipfel/University of the Witwatersrand; Dom Jack/Max Planck...
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Lithuanian-Polish royal crowns recovered

This 500-year-old crown had been hidden in the crypt of the Vilnius Cathedral since the beginning of the Second World War. Only now has...
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Tomb of a court physician to the pharaohs

View of one of the painted walls in the tomb of the royal personal physician Teti Neb Fu in Saqqara. © Egyptian Ministry of...
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Evidence of Moche sacrificial ritual found in Peru

Enclosure of the examined tombs in the “Huaca Cao Viejo” temple in Peru. © Jeffrey Quilter ...
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Did lead pollution cause Roman IQs to drop?

Longitudinal samples of ice cores analyzed for lead and other chemicals. © Jessi LeMay/DRI ...
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The syphilis pathogen comes from America

Skeletal element from the upper hip that contained an ancient syphilis-like pathogen genome. © Dario Ramirez ...
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Oldest Christian testimony north of the Alps

This inscription was hidden on a rolled silver foil in an amulet from the tomb of a man of Roman times. © Leibniz Institute...
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Early mixing of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals

This is what the early Europeans who roamed Thuringia and the Czech Republic around 45,000 years ago might have looked like. Researchers have now...
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Hunting equipment reveals weaponry from the Neolithic period

Three Neolithic arrows recovered from Los Murciélagos Cave: arrow shafts made from reeds and wood (top) and details of bound tendon fibers, feathers and...
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News about the production of the Nebra sky disk

The Nebra Sky Disk – a unique work of art from the early Bronze Age. © Juraj Lipták/State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology...
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Footprints provide evidence of co-existence of early hominins

This 3D reconstruction shows the 1.52 million year old footprint of a Paranthropus boisei amidst bird tracks and, at the top left, a crosswise...
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Was there a rock sanctuary in Athribis?

Access to the north tower of the temple pylon in Athribis, in which the archaeologists discovered a chamber and reliefs of gods in the...
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Archaeologists find oldest alphabetic characters

These characters, carved into a 4,400-year-old clay tablet, could be the oldest evidence of alphabetic writing. © Glenn Schwartz/Johns Hopkins University ...
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Bes vessels contained hallucinogenic drugs

Egyptian Bes vessel and its computer reconstruction. © Cassidy Delamarter Until now, archaeologists...
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Oldest depictions of net fishing in Europe

This slate slab from the Stone Age site of Gönnersdorf shows a fish trap. The fish was first engraved and then given a network...
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Pompeii dead: DNA reveals errors in previous attribution

Casts of people buried in Pompeii. © Archeological Park of Pompeii Around 2,000...
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How seals became the first writing

These Mesopotamian clay tablets bear symbols of the proto-cuneiform script, the preforms of which also appear as motifs on seal cylinders. © CDLI -...
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Regensburg: A city administration in the Nazi era

View of Regensburg today. © DERO2084/ iStock How does a city administration...
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Pompeii: Small house – great art

This fresco from the newly discovered house depicts a scene from the mythological story of Phaedra and Hyppolytus. © Parco Archeologico di Pompei ...
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