Archeology – Freiburg im Breisgau – More than 550 burials discovered in the leprosy cemetery – Knowledge
Freiburg (dpa) – At a former leper cemetery in Freiburg, archaeologists have recovered and documented the remains of more than 550 human burials, some from the Middle Ages. According to information from Wednesday, the experts also discovered indications that the area of a former Gutleuthaus must have been built on before it was first mentioned […]
Archeology – Freiburg im Breisgau – Archaeologists excavate 3400-year-old city in Iraq – Knowledge
Freiburg/Erbil (dpa) – Thanks to a drought, German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered a 3,400-year-old city on the Tigris River in Iraq. The ruins from ancient oriental times were shown again at the beginning of the year when the water level of the Mosul reservoir dropped due to a long drought, the University of Freiburg […]
Footprints indicate earlier colonization of America – knowledge
23,000 to 21,000 years ago, people trudged through the mud, alone and in small groups, on a lakeshore in what is now New Mexico, leaving their footprints. At least that is the conclusion of a new study that archaeologist Loren Davis of Oregon State University in Corvallis describes as “potentially groundbreaking.” If the data is […]
