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+++RESEARCH TICKER UNIVERSITY OF BONN: Using Electron Beams to Combat Colonial Prejudices+++ During the colonial era, vast quantities of gold from the Akan people of present-day Ghana ended up in European smelting furnaces.

A fire that occurred around 3,500 years ago in the Bronze Age settlement of Cabezo Redondo, located in the municipality of Villena (Alicante, Spain), destroyed homes and workshops.

A joint archaeological mission by the University of and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) has documented the world's most extensive find of inscribed pottery sherds at the Upper Egypt site of Athribis.

From ancient Persia to the massacres of January 2026, the history of sport embodies symbolic universes that have shaped Iranian civilization for millennia, where the values of bravery and courage are traditionally erected as ideals of humanity.

Acoustic measurements carried out on the Walcker organ in St. Jacob's Church in Ilmenau marked an important milestone in a European research project dedicated to the large-scale digitization of traditional and ancient musical instruments.

O A page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, considered lost for several decades, has been identified by a CNRS researcher at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois.

Jane Ohlmeyer , Trinity College Dublin , for The Conversation Irish politician Thomas Gould has become a bit of star in the Caribbean after a video of him speaking in the Irish parliament drew comments for the surprising similarity of his Cork accent to the Jamaican one.

Around 100 years ago, Ljuba Metzl translated a famous Baroque drama from Latin into German. But her achievement has been suppressed from history.

Christian buildings have been part of the architectural heritage of Islamic countries for many centuries.

The Cluster of Excellence "Cross-Cultural Philology" at LMU Munich, which was launched at the beginning of 2026, takes a global look at 5,000 years of written culture.

Far from the common assumption of a strictly binary division of labour, the roles of women and men in Neolithic Europe were both clearly differentiated and flexible.

Prof. Ludwig Morenz from Uni Bonn deciphers 5,000-year-old inscription displaying early Egyptian dominance in Sinai The find is spectacular: an unusually old inscription dating back around 5,0

Studentscore knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust remains insecure, with many struggling to answer basic questions about what happened, to whom, where and when, finds new research from the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. The findings, published in the Knowledge and Understandings of the Holocaust report, show progress in students' knowledge and understanding compared with results from the Centre-s previous national study in 2016, but also reveals persistent gaps and prevailing misconceptions.

In Belgium between the wars, migrant women were monitored, put on file and then expelled for political reasons.

Archaeology Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age.

Evidence of a possible Roman siege is among the most ground-breaking archaeological finds of 2025.

A collection of artefacts showing the earliest evidence of early humans intentionally making fire nearly 350,000 years earlier than previously thought has been uncovered in Barnham, England, by a team of archaeologists including researchers from UCL.

Historian Carolyn Strange uses the lens of criminal sentencing to explore how poisoners have been perceived.

A team of archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin and the University of York launch research project exploring Neolithic garbage pits / Project set to receive funding from German and British fun

The remains of an extensive Bronze Age settlement on the Kazakh Steppe that was likely once a major regional hub for large-scale bronze production more than 3,500 years ago, have been revealed by an international team of archaeologists co-led by researchers from UCL.

The Principality of Saxe-Jena existed for just 18 years before the last male scion, Johann Wilhelm, died in 1690 at the age of 15 and the house disappeared from History.