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Archaeologists have determined the exact date of construction of the Porta Nigra in Trier — it was built 1,848 years ago. It's the oldest monument of its kind in Germany. Aerial view of the Porta…
Greece’s government is officially asking a German museum for the return of a head sculpture which once graced the Athens Parthenon. Head of centaur from Parthenon metope, three-quarter view of face …
The demolition of a historic German church to clear the way for the expansion of an open-cast mine this week has outraged locals and environmentalists, as politicians moot giving up their own clean e…
Visiting a colleague in Germany in 2012, Boston College Research Professor Paul K. Strother was examining soil samples for pollen, spores, pieces of plants and insect legs -- organic debris that migh…
In a new study published in PLoS Biology , an international research team suggests Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations after the last glacial maximum: an initial migration of groups from…
Dinosaurs are far from extinct, but dominate as birds still most regions of the globe. Part of this huge success is due to the evolution of air sacs, which are crucial for the high efficiency of thei…
The Republic of Georgia will be the Frankfurt Book Fair’s Guest of Honour in 2018. Marking this occasion, the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will present important loans from the Georgian National Mu…
Plesiosaurs were especially effective swimmer. These long extinct "paddle saurians" propelled themselves through the World's oceans by employing "underwater flight" -- similar…
Using modern research tools on a 155-million-year-old reptile fossil, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the American Museum of Natural History report they have filled in some important clues to the evo…
Within the framework of an international cooperation project, the Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioral Evolution MONREPOS in Neuwied, an institution of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuse…
A group of archaeologists have published a letter discrediting the claim that the site of Untermassfeld was home to hominids a million years ago. The Untermassfeld site in Germany has yielded more th…
A St Gallen museum has returned two 17th-century ornamental silver and gold-plated ships plundered by the Nazi regime to the heirs of a German-American Jewish art collector. The silver-and-gold plate…
Authorities say workers digging in the western German city of Aachen have uncovered an ancient Roman road. The Roman road discovered in Aachen [Credit: dpa/Stadt Aachen/Stefan Herrmann] Aachen city a…
