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Greece & Rome · AD 400–700 · Altheim near Landshut, Bavaria and Hesse, Germany
Genomes from 258 people buried in Bavaria and Hesse between AD 400 and 700 show northern Europeans arrived before Rome's collapse and merged with provincial populations after about 470.
Stone Age · c. 8500 BC · Lüchow LA 11, Duvensee Moor, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
The skull of a wild ox, impaled on a pine post about 10,500 years ago, stood in front of the oldest known cremation burial in northern Germany.
Bronze Age · c. 1300–800 BC · Esperstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Most people studied in Central Germany grew up locally, and communities seem to have tried millet for a time before going back to wheat and barley.
Greece & Rome · 1st to 4th century AD · Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The 2nd-century lararium, with painted plaster and its altar slab, was found with a 1st-century staircase during work for Cologne's new MiQua museum.
Greece & Rome · AD 80–171 · Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
Coins date the wooden sanctuary, excavated ahead of housing construction in 2023, to between AD 80 and 171, before Regensburg's legionary fortress was built.
Greece & Rome · Early 3rd century AD · Aken, Trabitz and Deersheim, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Ditches at Aken, Trabitz and Deersheim in Saxony-Anhalt date to the early 3rd century AD, and a coin of Caracalla suggests a campaign around AD 213.