At the 1972 Olympic Games, members of Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage, only to execute them when a German rescue plan went wrong.Wikimedia CommonsA masked member of the Black September terrorist group stands on the balcony of the apartment where the group held its hostages during the Munich Massacre.
For less than 24 hours in the summer of 1972, eight terrorists held 11 hostages — and the attention of the entire world. Read More...
“We tend to underestimate the geographical knowledge of past societies. This slab is important, as it highlights this cartographical knowledge.”National Institute of Preventive Archaeological ResearchFound in 1900, the Saint-Bélec Slab was never properly analyzed until now.
In 1900, archaeologist Paul du Chatellier was excavating a prehistoric burial ground in northwestern France when he made the discovery of a lifetime, unearthing the Saint-Bélec Slab. The Bronze Age piece of rock was covered with odd markings that have only now been revealed as Europe’s oldest 3D map. Read More...
Other apparent victims' remains displayed teeth marks and bones that had been split so the marrow could be sucked out.Tom BjörklundA partial face reconstruction of “The Boy of Gran Dolina,” entirely based on the recovered tooth fragments.
The Spanish archaeological site of Atapuerca is famous for containing the earliest evidence in Europe of the species that preceded humankind. It even yielded the nearly million-year-old remains of a whole new species in 1994 — as well as evidence that some of them had been cannibalized. Read More...
