Auf Taiwan, offiziell Republik China genannt, wird ein neuer Präsident gewählt. Wichtiges Wahlkampfthema dabei: die Beziehungen zum Festland, der Volksrepublik China. Rechtlich ist der Status quo die einzige Option.
Sie waren göttliche Symboltiere – doch gut behandelt wurden sie offenbar nicht: Für rituelle Zwecke wurden Paviane im alten Ägypten unter quälerischen...
Als Anfang der 1970er Jahre die Ölpreise stark stiegen, erlebte der Iran dank hoher Einnahmen aus der Erdölförderung einen Wirtschaftsboom. Parallel dazu...
Eine Religion, die Menschen auf der ganzen Welt fasziniert
Der Buddhismus ist eine der großen religiösen Traditionen der Menschheit. Meditation, Achtsamkeit, Yoga – viele buddhistische Praktiken üben eine gewisse
Liebe, Hoffnung, Zorn, Fürsorge, Ekel, Angst, Mitgefühl – solche Gefühle kannten bereits die Menschen im antiken Griechenland. Sie stehen im Mittelpunkt
„Ein bewusster Europäer wurde ich irgendwann zwischen dem ersten Inhalieren von Gauloises-Tabakrauch als Schuljunge im Jahr 1969 und dem Signieren meiner
Berlin - Kultursenatsverwaltung will bei öffentlichen Fördergeldern verpflichtendes Bekenntnis gegen Antisemitismus
Die Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt will Empfänger von öffentlichen Fördergeldern mit einer Klausel unter anderem zum Bekenntnis gegen Antisemitismus verpflichten. Dadurch solle außerdem kein Geld an Vereinigungen gehen, die als terroristisch oder extremistisch eingestuft werden, hieß es in einer Mitteilung.
Parteien - Werteunion geht Schritte zur Parteigründung - Maaßen: Reden mit allen Parteien
Der Vereinsvorsitzende der Werteunion, Maaßen, hat Überlegungen zur Gründung einer eigenen Partei bestätigt und sich dabei offen für Gespräche mit allen Parteien gezeigt.
Irak, Israel, Jordania, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine & Syria - Carte linguistique / Linguistic map
All languages of Arabian Peninsula & Near East on this map. We provide useful and geographical information for each language. Une information utile pour chaque langue selon son aire géographique / Toutes les langues de la Péninsule Arabique & du Proche Orient sont représentées sur cette carte ..Todas las idiomas de Península Arábiga & de Oriente Medio se representan en este mapa. Proporcionamos una información útil y geográfica para cada lengua...
Researchers rely on Earth's magnetic field to verify an event mentioned in the Old Testament
A new study scientifically corroborates an event described in the Second Book of Kings -- the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael King of Aram. The method is based on measuring the magnetic field recorded in burnt bricks. The researchers say that the findings are important for determining the intensity of the fire and the scope of destruction in Gath, and also for understanding construction practices in the region.
Rüstungsgüter für Krieg: Rüstungsgüter für Krieg: Wer an Kiew liefert - und wer an Moskau
Die Slowakei, Polen, vorerst auch die USA: Etliche Nationen haben ihre Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine vorerst eingestellt. Wer was liefert - und woher Russlands Rüstungsgüter kommen. Ein Überblick von Jasper Steinlein.
Zwei Europol-Polizisten wechselten von der EU-Polizei zur Chatkontrolle-Lobbyorganisation Thorn. Jetzt untersucht die EU-Bürgerbeauftragte, ob dieser pikante Seitenwechsel legal war. Der EU-Abgeordnete Breyer kritisiert die Lobbyverflechtungen scharf.
Turkana stone beads tell a story of herder life in a drying east Africa 5,000 years ago
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 ...
Late Prehistoric discovery turns archaeological assumptions on their head
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. ...
'Bone biographies' reveal lives of medieval England's common people—and illuminate early benefits system
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 ...
Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway
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.
Ancient Balkan genomes trace the rise and fall of Roman Empire's frontier, reveal Slavic migrations
A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic ...
In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, an international team led by archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin has uncovered fortified prehistoric settlements in a remote region of Siberia. ...
How 'listening' to archaeological sites could shed light on the past
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 ...
Study suggests climate played a crucial role in human migration from Africa
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 ...
How early farmers in Scandinavia overcame climate change
As the world faces the challenges of present-day climate change, scientific inquiry is, among other objectives, exploring how human societies navigate environmental variations at large. Investigating ...
First discovery of carbon-based cave art in France's Dordogne region could pave way for precise radiocarbon dating
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 ...
Mesopotamian bricks unveil the strength of Earth's ancient magnetic field
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 ...
Researchers extol skills of ancient Egyptian medics
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.
Research reveals man born thousands of miles to the east traveled to Cambridgeshire 2,000 years ago
Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, Durham University, and MOLA Headland Infrastructure have discovered that a man who lived between AD 126–228 during the Roman period did not originally come ...
Revealing close and distant relatives in ancient DNA with unprecedented precision
If two persons are biologically related, they share long stretches of DNA that they co-inherited from their recent common ancestor. These almost identically shared stretches of genomes are called IBD ...
America's native population arises from a single wave of Asian migration, suggest dental anthropologists
For more than 50 years, dental anthropologists have studied variation in the shape of human teeth to study the patterns of migration that people took as they populated the world. The last major continental ...
Anthropologist's mapping project shows how Peru transformed after colonization
Parker VanValkenburgh has dedicated more than a decade of research to understanding how colonialism impacted Peru's Indigenous people in the 16th century. That time marked a turning point in the region: ...
How writing 'made us human'—an 'emotional history' from ancient Iraq to the present day
Evidence suggests that writing was invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next? Anyone interested in this question will find How Writing Made Us Human by Walter Stephens both ...
Ancient Sahul's submerged landscapes reveal a mosaic of human habitation
New research conducted by a team of archaeologists and Earth scientists has shed light on the ancient landscapes of Sahul, the Pleistocene (Ice Age) landmass comprising Australia and New Guinea.
Scientists reveal foodcrust archaeology through molecule excavation
A lipid and proteomic study of ancient carbonized material (foodcrust) on pottery from the Taihu Lake region of eastern China has revealed the presence of rice, seafood consumption, various pottery functions, ...
Early Neolithic high mountain settlers were already carrying out complex livestock and farming activities, finds study
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An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding practices that demonstrate how the first high mountain societies ...
People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia—and it had an inland sea
For much of the 65,000 years of Australia's human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 ...
Memo1〓Das teilte der IGH in Den Haag mit. Danach soll am kommenden Donnerstag zunächst der Antragsteller Südafrika gehört werden; am Tag darauf kann sich Israel äußern. Das Ersuchen Südafrikas auf Erlass einstweiliger Maßnahmen gegen Israel war Ende Dezember gestellt worden. In der Klageschrift heißt es laut IGH, dass die Handlungen und Unterlassungen Israels völkermörderischen Charakter hätten, da sie mit der Absicht begangen würden, die Palästinenser im Gaza-Strei
New evidence of plant food processing in Italy during Neanderthal-to-Homo sapiens period
Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there's new evidence they did so long before scientists ...
Lessons in sustainability, evolution and human adaptation, courtesy of the Holocene
The El Gigante rockshelter in western Honduras is among only a handful of archaeological sites in the Americas that contain well-preserved botanical remains spanning the last 11,000 years. Considered ...