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Sie teilen sich eine mehr als 4000 Kilometer lange Landgrenze und eine wechselhafte gemeinsame Geschichte. Chinas Staats- und Parteichef Xi Jinping und Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin tun so, als wären ihre Länder bestens befreundet. Doch wer mit den Menschen entlang der Grenze spricht, hört Widersprüchliches.

2300 Jahre alt, und doch wirkt sie fast wie neu: Archäologen haben in einem keltischen Grab im Münchner Stadtteil Sendling eine Schere entdeckt, die sogar

My current plan is to read my entire book manuscript (on the archaeology of the contemporary American experience) two more times before I submit. Once to finish the introduction and once to fi…

hose with an interest in the history of mathematical notation may have noted that in last month’s post I mentioned the symbol for equality, =, is often credited to Welsh physician and mathematician Robert Recorde,…

An archaeological dig at a city park has uncovered what could be the earliest house found in Cardiff.

Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of history at Saint Louis University, made a major announcement at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, revealing he and his team discovered ...

„Ein bewusster Europäer wurde ich irgendwann zwischen dem ersten Inhalieren von Gauloises-Tabakrauch als Schuljunge im Jahr 1969 und dem Signieren meiner

On the shores of Lake Turkana in east Africa, about 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, pastoralists buried their dead in communal cemeteries that were marked by stone circles and pillars. The north-west Kenya ...

For a team of archaeologists digging in southwest Spain, the discovery of a Bronze/Iron Age stela—a funerary stone slab with carvings depicting an important individual—would have been exciting enough. ...

A series of 'bone biographies' created by a major research project tell the stories of medieval Cambridge residents as recorded on their skeletons, illuminating everyday lives during the era of Black ...

Borneo is one of the world's most biodiversity-rich regions, home to ancient rainforests and an immense variety of wildlife.

This summer, archaeologists and a metal detectorist conducted a small survey of Herlaugshagen, at Leka in the northern part of Trøndelag County. They found something amazing.

Until recently, archaeologists have mostly relied on what they can see at the sites of ancient ruins to unlock the secrets of the past. But lately, new methods have started to allow researchers to use ...

About 6 million years ago, in the deep forests of eastern Africa, something spectacular happened. Chimpanzees, our closest relative in the animal kingdom, evolved in one direction, while our earliest ...

The Dordogne region of southern France is home to over 200 caves decorated with colorful Paleolithic art, but little is known about how old it is. Due to its coloration with iron- or manganese-oxide-based ...

Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a new study involving University ...

Cleopatra would have been in safe hands if she really had been bitten by a snake, or affected by any number of illnesses, say University of Manchester Egyptologists.