Ancient History News Archive January

SPEYER, GERMANY: For the past three millennia, the exploits of the Amazon tribe have become the stuff of legend. These implacable female warriors are supposed to have battled before Troy and laid siege to Athens. To this day, scholars have searched the world for evidence of their true nature. In this unique international historical and cultural exhibition with the title Amazons – Mysterious Warriors the Historical Museum of the Palatinate seeks to cast some light on the Amazons in all their facets from antiquity to the present day. [continue reading]

KARLSRUHE, GERMANY: The Baadisches Landesmuseum is hosting the exhibition The Neolithic Period in Transition: The Michelsberg Culture and Central Europe 6.000 years ago on societal changes in the early stone age, focussing on Stone Age culture in southern Germany. Around one thousand years after the establishment of the Neolithic in Central Europe radical cultural changes took place. A second colonisation process involved the occupation of previously uninhabited areas. [continue reading]

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