Schlagwort: History
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The cult of grain or sowing and reaping or life and death
Ancient mystery cults have left traces in the New Testament. Theologian Prof Dr Peter Wick from Ruhr University Bochum has researched which ones. Elements of the Demeter fear cult appear in the Gospels of John and Mark, for example, although they were not included in the Jewish foundations of Christianity, the Old Testament. ‘I am…
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Missing link found in the history of Indo-European languages
New insights into our linguistic roots by analysing ancient DNA Vienna/Austria February 5, 2025 Where did the Indo-European language family originate? Ron Pinhasi and his team from the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna, in collaboration with David Reich from Harvard University, have found a new piece to the puzzle. They analysed…
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New population model defines four phases of human colonisation of Europe
Researchers from the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Cologne have developed an ‘Our Way Model’ to understand how the first anatomically modern humans colonised Europe. The results were published in Nature Communications under the title ‘Reconstruction of human dispersal during Aurignacian on pan-European scale’. Cologne, September 04th, 2024: Scientists at the…
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Body. Cult. Religion. Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Munster, September, 10th 2024. Cluster of Excellence „Religion and Politics“ presents an exhibition on the body in the world’s religions from antiquity to the present day in the themed year „Body and Religion“- Opening on 25 October 2024 at the Archaeological Museum and Bible Museum of the University of Münster – Outstanding exhibits from Paris,…