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Herodotus Thought the Danube Began in the Pyrenees — That Error Now Clouds Germany’s “First Celtic City”

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 […]

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The Largest Prehistoric Sunken Shipwreck’s Cargo of Iron in Europe, Found in the Danube, Was Enough Metal to Arm 500 Warriors

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 — […]

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