Historie

The ancient city of Sardis in western Turkey has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List following nearly seven decades of continuous excavation. The designation recognizes the site's layered history from the Bronze Age through Ottoman rule and the sustained archaeological work that has revealed its significance.

25. juni 2026 Rapporteret af AI

Researchers have extracted the full surviving text from a carbonised papyrus scroll using high-resolution scans and artificial intelligence. The scroll comes from the library at Herculaneum, buried by the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

DNA analysis has revealed the earliest known outbreak of plague more than 5000 years ago among hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in Siberia. The finding challenges long-held views that major disease outbreaks began only after the rise of farming.

15. juni 2026 Rapporteret af AI

South Africa will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising on Tuesday at a national commemoration in Johannesburg.

A state-affiliated agency drew criticism Tuesday after using a Chinese propaganda narrative of the Korean War in a promotional poster for an elementary school program.

4. juni 2026 Rapporteret af AI

New research indicates that humans, rather than a glacier, probably transported the altar stone to Stonehenge from north-east Scotland. The 6-tonne sandstone monolith traveled about 750 kilometres to its current position at the monument's centre.