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    40,000-year-old Mammoth Bones Discovered in Wine Cellar
    22.05.2024
    him to the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). Bones from three different mammoths Since mid-May, OeAW archaeologists have uncovered a layer of mammoth bones lying on top of each other. Flint artifacts, jewellery fossils and charcoal had already been discovered 150 years ago in the adjacent wine cellar. According to archaeologists Hannah Parow-Souchon and Thomas Einwögerer from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, those finds were ...
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    Human migration under the microscope
    14.02.2020
    the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and Professor at the University of Vienna. In an interview, Walter Pohl explains how centuries-old genetic material can be researched and what can thereby be learned about the history of Europe. What exactly is HistoGenes about? Walter Pohl: The HistoGenes project brings together different disciplines: genetics, archeology, history and anthropology. It is about using new ways of analyzing ancient DNA to learn more about the population  ...
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    AI cracks the code of papyrus: The Austrian Academy of Sciences unravels the secrets of ancient texts with Mistral and Reply
    05.06.2026
    Can artificial intelligence (AI) help uncover the mysteries of history? That is precisely what researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) are working on. Even after centuries of research, countless papyri, inscriptions and manuscripts are still waiting to be read and analysed. They contain a vast wealth of information about the past. Just how revealing such sources can be was demonstrated only recently by a papyrus dating back almost 2,000 years, which was ...
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    New book puts peace treaty of Saint-Germain under scrutiny
    09.09.2019
    Eastern European map, which had previously been dominated by the Habsburg monarchy. But what consequences did the peace treaties have for history and how can they be judged from today's perspective? The historian Arnold Suppan addresses these questions in his new book "Imperialist Peace Order – Saint-Germain and Trianon, 1919-20", published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Curtailing Berlin’s imperialist politics For his book Suppan researched previously unknown ...
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    Cholera as a blueprint for pandemics
    07.07.2023
    cholera pandemic, which has been ongoing since 1961, outbreaks have repeatedly occurred worldwide. In May, a workshop on cholera took place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). In an interview, OeAW medical anthropologist Eva-Maria Knoll and Indian medical historian Vivek Neelakantan, who is currently a guest researcher at the Academy, explain the parallels to COVID-19 and how cholera outbreaks are related to a strained water supply. These research activities are part ...
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    Copper Age grave: male chief was actually a woman
    06.07.2023
    the skeleton was initially identified as male. Now, 15 years later, further research reveals a surprise: using tooth enamel analysis, a new scientific method of sex determination, a team of archaeologists, including researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the University of Vienna as well as the Medical University of Vienna, prove that the person is biologically female. The results of the study have been published in the renowned journal Nature Scientific ...
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    Historic music archive in St. Stephen's Cathedral completely restored after water damage
    25.07.2019
    long unnoticed and several centimeters of water had accumulated on the ground. The historical sheet music was found mildewed, washed-out and crinkled, and was thought to be irreparably damaged. However, thanks to a collaboration between the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), the University of Vienna and the cathedral archives of the parish of St. Stephan, the sheet music has been restored after complete drying. Under the direction of OeAW musicologist Elisabeth Hilscher, ...
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    1,300-Year-Old World Chronicle Discovered in the Sinai
    05.02.2026
    describes the political and religious transformations of the seventh century, including the rise of Islam and the Arab–Byzantine wars. The spectacular find was made by Adrian Pirtea, a historian at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), while examining digitized manuscripts from St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt. Initial results were recently published in the academic journal Medieval Worlds . A Damaged Manuscript ...
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    Secrets of Tibetan burial mounds
    30.10.2019
    complexes. The shepherd as the main on-site informant Besides such modern methods, Guntram Hazod and his team also rely on conventional avenues: the local shepherds often have tremendous knowledge of the area and its history. "They know every spring, every remote place, its name and often its history, and are therefore our primary informants on site", the social anthropologist says. Incidentally, the historic remnants of the burial mounds still have uses today: some serve as ...
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    Ephesos: New start for archaeological excavations
    23.03.2022
    Austria's excavations in Ephesos have a long tradition. Archaeologists have been researching the ancient site since 1895. In the history of the excavation work, there have been interruptions time and again; most recently in 2016 due to diplomatic tensions between Austria and Turkey. Although excavation permits for Austria's archaeology were granted again in 2018 and 2019, they were not renewed in the following two years – also due to the Corona pandemic. Now, thanks to talks ...