The State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation (LAKD) presented on Wednesday three valuable discoveries made last year by volunteer archaeologists in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. These include seven Bronze Age swords, 6,000 silver coins from the 11th century, and a treasure with a reliquary, also from the 11th century. During the presentation of the findings, Culture […]
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Posted inMedieval Archaeology
Mysterious Drawings Found on the Walls of Questenberg Castle Dungeons in Germany
Questenburg Castle, constructed in the mid-13th century, exhibits numerous historical carvings and drawings in its tower. These drawings, believed to be mainly by prisoners, reflect everyday life, Christian and heraldic symbols, and geometric shapes from the late Middle Ages and early Modern Age.
Posted inClassical Archaeology
Two Small Temples, of a Type Never Seen Before, Found at the Haltern Roman Camp in Germany
Archaeologists from the Westphalia-Lippe region (LWL) have discovered the remains of two small Roman temples and a sacrificial pit at the site of the ancient Roman camp in Haltern (Recklinghausen district). The two rectangular cult buildings were only made of clay framework, explains Dr. Bettina Tremmel, a Roman expert from LWL. However, they followed the […]
Posted inBronze Age Archaeology
Archaeologists find King Hinz’s Hall, the Largest Meeting Hall of the Nordic Bronze Age
Archaeologists made an unparalleled discovery from the entire Nordic Bronze Age (2200 to 800 BCE) near the burial mound of King Hinz in Seddin, Brandenburg, Germany. There, the remains of the largest meeting hall of the Bronze Age have been uncovered, measuring 10 by 31 meters, a size unique for this period, at least in […]
Posted inModern Era
Christian Heinrich Heineken, the child prodigy who impressed Europe at just four years old
It is surprising that centuries ago, in times when access to education was practically restricted to the elites and pedagogy lacked the qualitative specialization developed today, child prodigies emerged with some frequency. In this sense, the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment, gave birth to some very famous ones, with Mozart being the archetype of […]
Posted inModern Era
The German female athlete at the 1936 Berlin Olympics who turned out to be a man
A recent case is that of Caster Semenya, South African athlete twice Olympic champion and three times world champion in the middle-distance (800 meters, to be exact), who in medical analysis was found to have a chromosomal abnormality that makes her produce three times more testosterone than normal and have internal male sex organs, which […]
Posted inModern Era
Luz Long, the German athlete who befriended Jesse Owens and helped him win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
On 13 July 1943, a death occurred in the British field hospital in Acate, in the Sicilian province of Ragusa (Italy), which did not particularly attract the attention of the staff. After all, it was an enemy, a Luftwaffe obergefreiter (lance corporal) who was badly injured in defence of the island during the Allied invasion […]
Posted inSecond World War
Rettungsboje, the rescue buoy devised by the Germans in World War II to save downed pilots
Searching for a castaway lost at sea is an arduous and often frustrating task. Unless the search area can be narrowed down a lot, the task can be prolonged so long that probably when he or she is finally located – if at all – he or she is already dead from hypothermia, dehydration or […]
Posted inModern Era
The true story of the Illuminati
When Adam Weishaupt founded the Association of Perfectibilists in 1776, he surely did not imagine that he was adding fuel to the feverish imagination of all those who, in desperation, were looking for an explanation for a world that ended up giving way to another and only found it in the old resource of the […]
Posted inModern Era, Second World War
The Japanese ambassador to Berlin who involuntarily made Normandy landings easier to the Allies
Although intelligence services were consecrated above all in the Cold War, they had already had more or less important roles throughout History. In that sense, it is possible to consider among the best agents that have ever existed, one that operated during the Second World War, providing a thousand and a half reports to the […]
