History

Research into human tribal history has made significant progress in recent decades and fundamentally changed our image of the past. New finds and genetic analyzes make it possible to understand the development of different human species in more detail than... [...]

In the spring of the year, when the Pisonian conspiracy took its course, Rome was an atmosphere of insecurity and distrust. The city was characterized by political tensions, social upheavals and growing dissatisfaction with... [...]

In late antiquity, a time of profound upheavals and uncertainties, a pronounced fear of magical practices developed among the Christian emperors. This fear was not only an expression of religious beliefs, but was also deliberately called political... [...]

The historical view of the Germanic tribes at the time of the transition to the Roman Empire offers a fascinating and far-reaching field of scientific research that raises many questions and invites them to discuss. In this important era... [...]

In the first centuries after Christianity emerged, the young community faced the complex task of positioning itself on the dominant Hellenistic-Roman culture. It was necessary to find a separate identity without completely detaching from... [...]

The history of mankind is inextricably linked to an element that has had a significant impact on our survival, our social organization and our cultural development: fire. Already in the earliest times when our ancestors began to... [...]

The image of dropouts who smoke a joint under the palm trees in the warm light of the tropical sun immediately evokes associations with the rebellious and freedom-loving currents of the 1970s. But the longing for exit, for... [...]

The Second World War led to the criminal underworld gaining a whole new meaning and for a time played a crucial role in warfare. In the United States, the Naval Defense, the so-called Office... [...]

The transition from free trade in drugs to a strictly regulated international drug policy marks one of the most important turning points in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has changed the geopolitical structures in the long term. What today as... [...]

In 331 BC, Rome was hit by a disturbing and enigmatic wave of death, while in the eastern Mediterranean, Alexander the Great led his campaigns in the Levant. In Rome, however, a mysterious disease is spreading... [...]