Forensic pathologist Constanze Niess holding up the approximately 700-year-old skull of a man from the city of Rungholt. Wolfgang Runge/picture alliance via…
The remains of a “northern Atlantis” have been comprehensively charted for the first time in the muddy flats of the Wadden Sea, about ten miles off the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany
The medieval trading center of Rungholt, which is today located in the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and currently the focus of interdisciplinary research, drowned in a storm surge in 1362. Using a combination of geoscientific and.