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Archaeologists uncover unique ensemble from antiquity during excavations on Sicily Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast.

Finding written sources, analysing them and using the results of the analysis to answer a research question - this is how historians work.

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.

Researchers from the Oriental Institute at Leipzig University, together with their Hungarian colleague Viktor Forian-Szabo, recently published the book "Berber Studies, Islamic Studies and Arabic Studies in Leipzig".

Far-reaching genetic ties between the Mongolian steppe and Central Europe under Hun rule A multidisciplinary and international research project has brought fresh insights into the origins and diversity of the populations that lived under and after the Hun empire between the late 4th and 6th century CE in Central Europe.

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