Tag: Archaeology
Archaeology: The goddess from the ditch
In Lower Franconia, excavators have found a clay statuette that is supposed to represent a water goddess. The find is so far unique for Central Europe. source site
Archaeology: New rite for Bronze Age burials discovered – Knowledge
What exactly happened at the stake can no longer be said today. Presumably the people gathered around their dead one last time. Possibly they raised their cups once more in…
Archaeology: Large animals with small brains were more likely to die out – knowledge
The European forest elephant was a colossus. Bulls reached a shoulder height of more than four meters and weighed up to eleven tons, so the animals were about a third…
Archaeology: How people lived in Bavaria a thousand years ago – Ebersberg
Of Corbinian Eisenberger, Pliening The two girls must have been twelve years old, maybe thirteen. They were buried together more than a thousand years ago. The two archaeologists are sure…
Archaeology: Anglo-Saxon kings were largely vegetarian – knowledge
King Ine was evidently a hungry man. At the end of the seventh century AD, the regent of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex codified in writing what he expected as…
Archaeology: Why did the Vikings leave Greenland? – Knowledge
Of Jacob Wetzel Was Greenland really as green as the name suggests in Viking times? No one knows for sure, but it’s unlikely. The seafarer Erik the Red called the…
Archaeology: Are the world’s oldest mummies from Europe?
archeology Not from Egypt or Chile: Do the oldest mummies in the world come from Europe? The computer simulation shows how the mummification of the corpses in the Sado Valley…
Archaeology: The Myth of the Vikings and their Helms
Archaeologists have found that horned headdresses do not date back to Viking times and were never intended for combat. However, the main finding of the study is much more far-reaching.…
Archaeology: Badger finds coins from the Roman Empire in Spain
archeology Animal treasure hunter: Badger in Spain apparently finds coins from the Roman Empire Such a badger may have helped discover ancient Roman coins (stock image) © Carsten Rehder /…