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Prehistorians from the Universities of Jena and Neuchâtel (Switzerland) have re-analysed Palaeolithic animal bone finds that were excavated in the 1970s near Saalfeld in Thuringia. The new findings support the theory that people at this time did not live in large camps from which hunting expeditions started and returned, but that they travelled in small mobile groups, following the tracks of their next prey.

Syphilis originated in the Americas prior to the arrival of Columbus, and European colonialism made it globally dominant A research team led by members of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary An

Under a grant from the Humboldt Foundation, Professor Robert Braun of the University of California Berkeley is conducting research on scare stories for children How were anti-Semitism, fear and children's scare stories connected in late 19th and early 20th-century Europe?

The German Research Foundation has approved around one million euros for an interdisciplinary research group at the Würzburg Egyptology Department.

Are the cliffs of Athribis hiding a former sanctuary' In the small Egyptian village near Sohag, around 200 kilometers north of Luxor, researchers from the University of Tübingen, supported by the Egyp

Historians identify medieval document as work of Italian counterfeiter   A document held in Göttingen University's Faculty of Humanities has been revealed as an 18 century forgery.

Study refutes previous assumptions and reveals the cosmopolitan origin of the inhabitants of Pompeii Researchers from the University of Florence, Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii.

An international team of researchers led by professor of Egyptology at Freie Universität Berlin Jochem Kahl made the discovery An international team of archaeologists led by Professor Jochem Kahl from Freie Universität Berlin has made an incredible discovery in the necropolis of Asyut, Egypt.

Liberty Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: ^ The "European Romanticism Research Centre" at the University of Jena supported the major show at the Hamburger Kunsthalle at the beginning of th

Marcel Robischon, Professor of Agroecology at the HU, has been working with his students on the propagation of historical mulberry trees.

What happens when we look at a late antique image? In what order does our gaze wander over the individual elements? Where does it linger? What bodily reactions do such images or early Christian narra

Norbert Nebes from the University of Jena and Prof. Mulugeta Feseha from the University of Addis Ababa (from left) are documenting archaeological sites in the "Ethiopian Heritage Digital Atlas" (EHDA).

Prehistoric site is currently being researched by archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin In 2012, archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin came across mysterious stones in the mountains of the South Caucasus. Known as vishaps ("dragon stones"), these large stelae are approximately five meters in height and are famously found in the high mountains of Armenia.

A new Indology project is focussing on a hitherto little-researched period of ancient Indian history: the time of the transition from Buddhism to Hinduism in the northwest of the country.

The Maya did not strive for individual glory. They achieved top sporting performances primarily to avert the wrath of the gods and the downfall of their culture.

  RWTH geologist Professor Klaus Reicherter is on the trail of a "lost earthquake" in southern Spain.

Researchers in Heidelberg and Mainz investigate the history of a historical network to combat faked artworks Art forgeries represented a challenge to the art world and its institutions long before the sensational case around Wolfgang Beltracchi.