History & Archaeology

Victim of the Iron Curtain

Border facilities between Austria and Czechoslovakia on March (photo from 1989). Picture Alliance / Brandstaetter Images | Votava Numerous people died across the borders of the...

Constant freedom

A geopolitical curiosity at first glance, a place of superlatives with closer look: San Marino is the oldest and with a good 61 square...

The messages of the eternal deaths

Archaeologists and scientists work closely together as mummy researchers. Modern analysis methods provide completely new insights. Sometimes they support the knowledge of archeology, sometimes...

Instruments of the world

It all started with the French Revolution. Countless nobles had to flee in front of their furor. Back they left their possessions - also...

Foreign and gourmet

Already during his lifetime, Lucius Licinius Lucullus was famous for his wealth, its firm, its chosen taste and his style -forming villas. What one...

The Babylonians and the moon

In the old Babylon it was up to the court astrologer to observe, interpret, interpret and make predictions. Lunar eclipses in particular were considered...

Coexisted as ahead and early man

These 13 fossil teeth from Ledi-Geraru are between 2.6 and 2.8 million years old and come from two different hominine species. © Brian Villmoare/...

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