In southwestern Germany, an open-air museum and a website present the Heuneburg as the “Celtic city of Pyrene”, a settlement already thriving when Rome was still a small village on the Tiber. The name comes from Herodotus. The problem, according to a study published in The Antiquaries Journal, is that the Greek historian was almost […]

By Eva Brendel and Marilen Martin Sep 26, 2026 (Bloomberg) –The halls of the Development Center for Ship Technology and Transport Systems in Duisburg, Germany are lined with model ships, small-scale...

In the spring of 2019, workers dredging gravel at Deinham, a site on the Danube in Upper Austria, kept snagging strange double-pointed iron objects in the excavator’s bucket. Instead of tossing them into the scrap pile — the usual fate of corroded iron pulled from riverbeds, since it rarely looks as recognizable as bronze — […]