Tag: conflict
Study uses AI to estimate unexploded bombs from Vietnam War
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to detect Vietnam War-era bomb craters in Cambodia from satellite images - with the hope that it can help find unexploded bombs.
Dig Hill 80 – The final push to record a WW1 Battlefield site
An archaeology Kickstarter campaign is trying to raise the funds to preserve the unique archaeology of a WW1 Battlefield site.
Two Ritual Baths (Miqva’ot) of the Great Synagogue of Vilna unearthed after their Destruction in the Holocaust 70 years earler
A team of Israeli, Lithuanian and American archaeologists unearthed the remains of two ritual baths that were used by congregants at the Great Synagogue in Vilna, today the capital of Lithuania.
Stanford researcher sheds light on life of lesbians in Nazi Germany
Lesbians may have enjoyed limited toleration during the Nazi regime in Germany, according to new Stanford researc
Remembrance when we’d rather forget: the war dead of Japan and Germany
The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo was built in 1869 at the very moment that the modern Japanese state emerged, and as Japan’s national war memorial it commemorates the souls of the 2.5m Japanese who have given their lives for their country.
Population boom and droughts contributed to collapse of ancient Assyrian Empire
Researchers see parallels between decline of Assyrian civilisation and today’s turmoil in Syria and Iraq.