Faculty of Humanities

History and archaeology

Ancient DNA hints at diverse Stone Age traditions of kinship

2021.04.14

An international team of researchers have used ancient genomes, 22 new genomes from Aşıklı Höyük an…
Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification

2021.02.26

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen…
Danish research institutions join the leading European network of cultural heritage

2021.02.17

Led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Danish research institutions and museums now…
New book provides rare insights into a Mesopotamian medical practitioner’s education

2020.11.30

2,700 years ago, a man called Kisir-Ashur practiced medicine and magic in the Assyrian city of Assu…
Inks containing lead were likely used as drier on ancient Egyptian papyri

2020.10.26

Analysing 12 ancient Egyptian papyri fragments with X-ray microscopy, University of Copenhagen…
Paper on early agriculture’s impact on human lifestyle awarded prestigious prize

2020.03.23

Together with an international team of researchers, University of Copenhagen archaeologist Scott…
Researcher discovers terrifying epilepsy demon on 2,700-year-old clay tablet

2019.12.20

A 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Iraq describing medical treatments has suddenly…
Rare find: human teeth used as jewellery in Turkey 8,500 years ago

2019.12.13

At a prehistoric archaeological site in Turkey, researchers have discovered two 8,500-year-old huma…
New research project will tell the entangled history of the Lesser Antilles

2019.12.10

In history books, the islands of the eastern Caribbean, the Lesser Antilles, are described as small…
Forgotten Islamic literary tradition uncovered in the Horn of Africa

2019.02.06

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have spent the last five years identifying and…
11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt

2019.01.15

11,500 years ago in what is now northeast Jordan, people began to live alongside dogs and may also…
Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

2018.07.16

At an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan, researchers have discovered the charred remains o…
New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia

2018.05.09

A new study has discovered that horses were first domesticated by descendants of hunter-gatherer…
Ink from ancient Egyptian papyri contains copper

2017.11.10

Until recently, it was assumed that the ink used for writing was primarily carbon-based at least…
Scandinavia’s earliest farmers exchanged terminology with Indo-Europeans

2017.09.29

5,000 years ago, the Yamnaya culture migrated into Europe from the Caspian steppe. In addition to…
Archaeologists connect ancient Corinth's inner and outer harbours

2016.12.20

Researchers from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and the University of Copenhagen are…
Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication

2016.12.05

Recent archaeological studies have suggested that the cultivation of morphologically wild plant…
Danish archaeologist discovers the remains of ancient naval base in Athens

2016.06.09

Marine archaeologist Bjørn Lovén from the University of Copenhagen has - with a team of Greek…
University of Copenhagen establishes research corporation with Iranian heritage organisation

2016.04.13

Iranian and Danish archaeologists soon launch a collaborative research project that will investigat…
Greek and Danish archaeologists excavate the ancient Greek harbour town Lechaion

2015.12.23

In Greece, underwater excavations of Lechaion, ancient Corinth’s partially submerged harbour town,…
The Bronze Age Egtved Girl was not from Denmark

2015.05.21

One of the best-known Danish Bronze Age finds, the famous Egtved Girl from 1370 BC, was not born in…
Weights will shed new light on prehistoric trade and economy

2015.03.17

How did the introduction of balance weights in Bronze Age Europe and Asia shape the way prehistoric…
On Turing and The Imitation Game

2015.01.28

The Imitation Game, which has just opened in Danish cinemas, is about the math genius Alan Turing,…
The Arab Spring in Tunisia came from the people

2014.12.02

Last Sunday, Tunisia held its second presidential election since the revolution that toppled…
Afro-Jewish band dominated Nazi-occupied Denmark's music scene

2014.01.27

During the Nazi occupation of Denmark 1940-1945, the jazz orchestra Harlem Kiddies, which boasted a…
Informal elite network changed international politics in the 1970s

2013.11.07

In the 1970s, a network of businessmen, politicians, and diplomats from the US, Europe, and Japan –…
University of Copenhagen excavations in Qatar named World Heritage Site

2013.06.24

In 2009, University of Copenhagen archaeologists signed a contract with the Qatar Museums Authority…
Ancient Egyptians sold themselves into temple slavery

2012.12.19

2,200 years ago in the ancient Egyptian city Tebtunis, Egyptians voluntarily entered into slave…
Ancient stinging nettles reveal Bronze Age trade connections

2012.09.28

A piece of nettle cloth retrieved from Denmark's richest known Bronze Age burial mound may derive…

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Heritage in Syria in Danger

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