Does the artificial watercourse in the Hessian Ried have a Roman past? The Landgraben, the body of water between the German cities of Groß-Gerau and Trebur
In their search for silver ore, the Romans established two military camps in the Bad Ems area near Koblenz in the 1st century AD
Neanderthals hunted elephants: Earliest evidence found of humans killing elephants for food; the study is published in Science Advances
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new exhibit at the Wiener Library: the appalling children’s board game “Jews out!” from Nazi Germany
With the help of the analysis of ancient genomes, it has been possible for the first time to gain insights into kinship and marriage rules in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece
Humans have been using bear skins for at least 300,000 years, according to traces on bones from the site of Schöningen in Lower Saxony
Tiny flakes in Schöningen tell a story of tool use 300,000 years ago; the study has been published in Scientific Reports
Ancient DNA from medieval Germany tells the origin story of Ashkenazi Jews: the ancient DNA has been extracted from teeth
Does the history of our languages match the history of our genes? A research shows a large number of matches, but also widespread mismatches
Ancient DNA pushes the herring trade back to the Viking age; a new study on the subject has been published on PNAS
