Johann Strauss ist eine Ikone der Wiener Musikwelt. Im Oktober vor 200 Jahren wurde er in Wien geboren. Doch er starb als Deutscher in Coburg. Zur Aufgabe seiner österreichischen Staatsbürgerschaft brachte ihn eine Frau.
Es zeigt sich jetzt, wie falsch es war, von #Twitter nach #Bluesky & #Threads zu gehen. Auch wenn es sich im blauen Himmel angenehmer anfühlt, so bindet er doch die Flüchtlinge an die USA. „Mundus sine caesaribus“ ist halt keine rein private Entscheidung.
Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von HateAid erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot!
In new excavations centered around the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula on the grounds of the Tower of London, archaeologists have uncovered more than 20 previously unknown burials.
Known as the Colossi of Memnon, the statues of Amenhotep III both stand at more than 40 feet tall. Experts have been working for two decades to reassemble them
Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics of possible encounters between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula during the Paleolithic period for the first time.
An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what has been hailed as one of the most important mosaic finds ever made in the UK have revealed that
The Dmanisi paleoanthropological assemblage from Georgia is among the most debated collections of hominin fossils due to its early age and extreme morphological diversity relative to other Homo assemblages. This variability has been interpreted as a result of sexual dimorphism in the Homo erectus clade, in which Dmanisi hominins were traditionally classified. However, this hypothesis has been challenged by the proposal that the Dmanisi fossils represent more than one Homo species. Taxonomic assessments of the Pleistocene Georgian hominins have focused primarily on craniometric analyses, with fewer studies addressing dental morphology through metric approaches. Considering the value of dental crown area in reconstructing evolutionary relationships, a comparative sample of fossil hominins, consisting of 51 maxillary and 71 mandibular specimens (583 teeth in total), was analyzed using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) to evaluate the diversity in the Dmanisi fossil assemblage. Morphological affinities were examined visually through the first two discriminant functions, and taxonomic relationships were tested via classification analyses based on posterior probabilities. The analyses show a strong association of the D4500-D2600 specimen with australopiths, and of the D2282-D211 and D2700-D2735 specimens with Homo species. The sexual dimorphism hypothesis was tested by comparing the ratios of mandibular postcanine dentition of Dmanisi specimens with male and female gorillas and chimpanzees, which suggests that dental crown area of the Pleistocene Georgian hominins could be the product of sexual dimorphism only if they came from species with similar levels of dimorphism than these great apes. We conclude that differences in crown dimensions support the hypothesis of two distinct taxa coexistent at the Dmanisi site, previously proposed to be Homo georgicus and Homo caucasi. This proposal has important implications for the dispersal of Homo out of Africa at the beginning of Pleistocene.
The public presentation of the results of the 2025 archaeological campaign at the Sanctuary of the Bagno Grande (San Casciano dei Bagni, Siena, Italy) has revealed data that compel a complete reconfiguration of our understanding of this exceptional site. The findings, presented this Sunday to instit
Archaeologists announced on Tuesday the completion of excavations in the Peristerona River valley, uncovering new evidence of ritualistic activity and water management linked to copper production under Roman rule in Cyprus. The campaign was led by the Universities of Copenhagen and Uppsala with the approval of the antiquities department and…
Das Coronavirus hätte man auch anders bekämpfen können, sagt der Virologe Christian Drosten. Der Fokus der Maßnahmen sei eine politische Frage gewesen.
Alte DNA aus Süditalien enthüllt Herkunft und Sozialstruktur einer Gemeinschaft der Mittelbronzezeit Ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Leitung des Max-Planck–Harvard Research Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) am Max-Planck Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig und der Universität Bologna hat erstmals das genetische und soziale Profil einer rund 3500 Jahre alten Gemeinschaft aus Nordwestkalabrien rekonstruiert. Die Studie bietet neue Einblicke in die Herkunft, Lebensweise und familiären Strukturen einer sogenannten Protoapenninischen Kultur der Mittelbronzezeit.
Die 1200 Jahre alte Beisetzung ist ungewöhnlich gut erhalten und zeigt eine hochrangige Dame des Hauses in Tracht mit kostbarem Schmuck – und Jakobsmuscheln im Gesicht
Der Übergang von der nomadischen zur sesshaften, auf Landwirtschaft beruhenden Lebensweise zu Beginn der Jungsteinzeit war einer der tiefgreifendsten Einschnitte in der Geschichte der Menschheit. Schon lange diskutiert die Wissenschaft, ob dieser Entwicklungsschritt, verbunden mit weiteren Innovationen und damit steigender Produktivität der Landwirtschaft, schnell zu sozialer Ungleichheit führte – und damit letztendlich die Keimzelle aller Wohlstandsunterschiede bis in die Gegenwart darstellt.
