Since its discovery by the British officer Tony Clunn in the late 1980s, the German site of Kalkriese in Lower Saxony, north…
Fragments of ivory found in a German cave on the eve of war have been reconstructed to create a magnificent ‘Lion Man’.…
Richard Hodges traces different journeys in the 8th century AD Berlin seems an unlikely place to discuss the 8th century AD in…
Archaeologists have found the missing head of a 40,000 year old figurine, whose body was excavated in 1931. The two pieces have…
Archaeologists in Cologne are completing the city’s biggest project of its kind ahead of construction for a new railway network. When it…
Archaeologists returning to the spot where the enigmatic ‘Lion Man’ was found 74 years ago have announced the discovery of almost 1,000…
The identification of four 7,000-year-old wells as the world’s oldest-known timber structures suggests that Neolithic communities were capable of much more sophisticated…
Our ideas about what a Roman fort should look like are being overturned, or at least being severely challenged, by recent reconstructions…
Previously thought to be little more than hillfort, is this actually the first Iron Age city north of the Alps?…
Archaeologists have identified the world’s oldest instruments, showing that early modern humans were making music 40,000 years ago. Two flutes, one made…
In his first-hand account of the Gallic Wars (Commentarii de Bello Gallico), Julius Caesar observes that the Gallic people have a moon-…
Weapons, horse bones, and human skeletal remains have been found in the bed of the River Tollense, in north-eastern Germany, suggesting that…