Dark History Tours & Experiences
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Dark History Tours & Experiences offer outstanding English language tours in Germany. Based in Munich, we also tour in Nuremberg, Regensburg and Berlin. Whether your interest is in archaeology, Medieval history or WW2, we have a private tour for you.
As an archaeologist working in Germany, having the bombsquad come to work is pretty normal. Well.. you get used to it. However, doctors in France had to make use of their services recently...in the ER room: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... #EOD #Ironharvest #anythingisadildoifyouarebraveenough
Doctors find live WWI artillery shell in man's rectum in France
The unnamed 24-year-old rushed to the Rangueil Accident and Emergency unit in Toulouse, in the south west of the country, late on Saturday night (stock image).
www.dailymail.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
As an archaeologist working in Germany, having the bombsquad come to work is pretty normal. Well.. you get used to it. However, doctors in France had to make use of their services recently...in the ER room: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... #EOD #Ironharvest #anythingisadildoifyouarebraveenough
Three railway workers—Karl Böttinger, Matthias Holzer, Andreas Rehrl imprisoned in Salzburg by the Nazis for resistance activities.
On the 17th of November 1944, all three were killed while attempting to neutralize time-delay fuses on Allied bombs at Max-Ott-Platz; such work was their punishment:
On the 17th of November 1944, all three were killed while attempting to neutralize time-delay fuses on Allied bombs at Max-Ott-Platz; such work was their punishment:
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Three railway workers—Karl Böttinger, Matthias Holzer, Andreas Rehrl imprisoned in Salzburg by the Nazis for resistance activities.
On the 17th of November 1944, all three were killed while attempting to neutralize time-delay fuses on Allied bombs at Max-Ott-Platz; such work was their punishment:
On the 17th of November 1944, all three were killed while attempting to neutralize time-delay fuses on Allied bombs at Max-Ott-Platz; such work was their punishment:
I do like a Memento Mori: Munich Cathedral, C17th-18th #MementoMori #Munich #München #History #Archaeology #Gravestones #Skull
January 25, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I do like a Memento Mori: Munich Cathedral, C17th-18th #MementoMori #Munich #München #History #Archaeology #Gravestones #Skull
I must have collected my first fossils from the beach aged around 7. That thrill of connecting with the past put me on the road to where I am today.
Aged 50, its the same thrill.
Excited to read that in Edinburgh a fossil is rewriting the past media.nms.ac.uk/news/410-mil... #fossils #geology
Aged 50, its the same thrill.
Excited to read that in Edinburgh a fossil is rewriting the past media.nms.ac.uk/news/410-mil... #fossils #geology
410 million year old fossil which defies classification enters collection of National Museums Scotland | National Museums Scotland News
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 7pm GMT, Wednesday 21st January
A 410 million year-old fossil from Aberdeenshire in Scotland which scientists have identified as being a ‘new’ form of life, distinct from plants o...
media.nms.ac.uk
January 25, 2026 at 11:29 AM
I must have collected my first fossils from the beach aged around 7. That thrill of connecting with the past put me on the road to where I am today.
Aged 50, its the same thrill.
Excited to read that in Edinburgh a fossil is rewriting the past media.nms.ac.uk/news/410-mil... #fossils #geology
Aged 50, its the same thrill.
Excited to read that in Edinburgh a fossil is rewriting the past media.nms.ac.uk/news/410-mil... #fossils #geology
I'm pretty wowed by this announcement from Margam Park, not a million miles away from where I grew up in Cardiff, Wales. The geophysical image is amazing: that is one very substantial structure - www.bbc.com/news/article...
Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam County Park.
www.bbc.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
I'm pretty wowed by this announcement from Margam Park, not a million miles away from where I grew up in Cardiff, Wales. The geophysical image is amazing: that is one very substantial structure - www.bbc.com/news/article...
I first put trowel to dirt when I was 14. I'm 50 next week. In that time I've only had two sites where I've woken up and really thought - "lets go to work" - and looked forward to it.
I'm so stoked for my colleagues back in the UK - this is once in a lifetime stuff:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm so stoked for my colleagues back in the UK - this is once in a lifetime stuff:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thetford dig unearths Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard
The discoveries are "extraordinarily rare", say the archaeologists who helped find them.
www.bbc.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:36 PM
I first put trowel to dirt when I was 14. I'm 50 next week. In that time I've only had two sites where I've woken up and really thought - "lets go to work" - and looked forward to it.
I'm so stoked for my colleagues back in the UK - this is once in a lifetime stuff:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm so stoked for my colleagues back in the UK - this is once in a lifetime stuff:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A tricky one - and I don't feel I'm in command of enough information to have anything other than a knee-jerk reaction or opinion : www.bbc.com/news/article... #Archaeology #Krim #Crimea #LittleGreenMen #Russia #Ukraine #Looting #Myrmekion
Should a top Russian archaeologist face trial for digging in occupied Crimea?
The case of a scholar wanted in Ukraine sparked a debate on the relationship between museums and the Russian state.
www.bbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A tricky one - and I don't feel I'm in command of enough information to have anything other than a knee-jerk reaction or opinion : www.bbc.com/news/article... #Archaeology #Krim #Crimea #LittleGreenMen #Russia #Ukraine #Looting #Myrmekion
Archaeologists get a lot of flak from those with opinions but little to no knowledge about how we actually conduct excavations - and why. We don't go out and dig up burial sites for fun:
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2570285...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2570285...
Mysterious Bronze Age mass burial may hold grim secret from Scotland's past
The remains of adults and children appear to have been buried in a hurry
www.heraldscotland.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Archaeologists get a lot of flak from those with opinions but little to no knowledge about how we actually conduct excavations - and why. We don't go out and dig up burial sites for fun:
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2570285...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2570285...
I'm in Salzburg for work a few times a year. I always try and visit the cemetery at the foot of the castle (it's the same one from the end of The Sound of Music"). A lot of 18th and 19th century gravestones but if you look, there are older ones, like my pal Skele here :-) #Salzburg #Tombstones #IR
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I'm in Salzburg for work a few times a year. I always try and visit the cemetery at the foot of the castle (it's the same one from the end of The Sound of Music"). A lot of 18th and 19th century gravestones but if you look, there are older ones, like my pal Skele here :-) #Salzburg #Tombstones #IR
I do love a nice bit of worked flint; you read it, work out how it was made, what it was used for. It's not my field - I'm more BA to early Med - but I do like it. As the article states, sometimes you can still cut yourself on them www.bbc.com/news/article...
Stone tool discovery suggests very first humans were inventors
The find shows that the technology was passed down through thousands of generations.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I do love a nice bit of worked flint; you read it, work out how it was made, what it was used for. It's not my field - I'm more BA to early Med - but I do like it. As the article states, sometimes you can still cut yourself on them www.bbc.com/news/article...
You know your regime is great when you have to physically stop and threaten with death - your people from leaving.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war
A new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the east
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
You know your regime is great when you have to physically stop and threaten with death - your people from leaving.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
So here we are, its nearly Halloween. As a kid growing up in Wales, I'd always carve a swede up to make a lantern.
Here in Germany its quite hard to find them; they are classed as a animal feed. You see them very occasionally.
Here is one I carved a while back:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jtk...
Here in Germany its quite hard to find them; they are classed as a animal feed. You see them very occasionally.
Here is one I carved a while back:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jtk...
Carving a Halloween lantern
YouTube video by Dark History Tours & Experiences
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October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
So here we are, its nearly Halloween. As a kid growing up in Wales, I'd always carve a swede up to make a lantern.
Here in Germany its quite hard to find them; they are classed as a animal feed. You see them very occasionally.
Here is one I carved a while back:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jtk...
Here in Germany its quite hard to find them; they are classed as a animal feed. You see them very occasionally.
Here is one I carved a while back:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jtk...
Great news for the region AND experimental archaeology www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/scotlan...
#Broch #Caithness #Archaeology #Picts #Scotland #NC500
#Broch #Caithness #Archaeology #Picts #Scotland #NC500
Scotland’s first new broch for 2000 years wins planning approval
The approval of the Caithness Broch Project’s plans represents a major milestone for their bid to build a “faithful replica” on a site near Latheron.
www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Great news for the region AND experimental archaeology www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/scotlan...
#Broch #Caithness #Archaeology #Picts #Scotland #NC500
#Broch #Caithness #Archaeology #Picts #Scotland #NC500
The scumbags who broke in the St Fagans Museum in Cardiff have been arrested and charged. I hope the priceless artefacts are recovered ASAP: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... #Wales #Archaeology #BronzeAge #StFagans #HeritageCrime
Two men charged over gold artefacts raid at St Fagans National Museum
South Wales Police were called to the museum to reports that thieves had broken in during the early hours of Monday morning
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The scumbags who broke in the St Fagans Museum in Cardiff have been arrested and charged. I hope the priceless artefacts are recovered ASAP: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... #Wales #Archaeology #BronzeAge #StFagans #HeritageCrime
The local - yet national - museum close to where I grew up has been broken into, the thieves stealing priceless Bronze Age jewelry (priceless... meaning not base monetary value) www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... #NMW #BronzeAge #Wales #bastards
Police investigate break in at much-loved national museum
Museum officials after expressed their shock at the 'targeted attack'
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The local - yet national - museum close to where I grew up has been broken into, the thieves stealing priceless Bronze Age jewelry (priceless... meaning not base monetary value) www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... #NMW #BronzeAge #Wales #bastards
On my recent trip up North, I visited Cologne. Lots of history - both Roman and more recent. I was keen to visit the memorial to the Edelweiss Pirates; murdered by the Nazis for not conforming:
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
On my recent trip up North, I visited Cologne. Lots of history - both Roman and more recent. I was keen to visit the memorial to the Edelweiss Pirates; murdered by the Nazis for not conforming:
Oktoberfest 2025 draws to a close. I missed the first week; I was giving a tour in Northern Germany, taking in not just WW2 sites but also so locations with a more esoteric connection the period - including Externstein and the Hermann Denkmal. I had 2 cameras; a 4k and an SLR with an IR filter
October 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Oktoberfest 2025 draws to a close. I missed the first week; I was giving a tour in Northern Germany, taking in not just WW2 sites but also so locations with a more esoteric connection the period - including Externstein and the Hermann Denkmal. I had 2 cameras; a 4k and an SLR with an IR filter
Up in Berchtesgaden, I also had time to sample the "Jubiliaums Bier", which is the next one up from the standard Helles:
September 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Up in Berchtesgaden, I also had time to sample the "Jubiliaums Bier", which is the next one up from the standard Helles:
I gave two tours at the Eagles Nest this week - then tried the beer from the Berchtegaden Hofbräu brewery; these were hot days.
The Helles lager is a great thirst quencher. Grain up front, slightly bready, not too hoppy with a slight citrus/cut grass note.
The Helles lager is a great thirst quencher. Grain up front, slightly bready, not too hoppy with a slight citrus/cut grass note.
September 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I gave two tours at the Eagles Nest this week - then tried the beer from the Berchtegaden Hofbräu brewery; these were hot days.
The Helles lager is a great thirst quencher. Grain up front, slightly bready, not too hoppy with a slight citrus/cut grass note.
The Helles lager is a great thirst quencher. Grain up front, slightly bready, not too hoppy with a slight citrus/cut grass note.
I've just given a Medieval tour in Munich. One of the subjects we cover is the Black Death (The "Pestilence" as it was known back then). Then this pops up in my feed: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Arizona resident dies from pneumonic plague, health officials say
This was the first recorded death from the disease in Coconino County since 2007.
www.bbc.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I've just given a Medieval tour in Munich. One of the subjects we cover is the Black Death (The "Pestilence" as it was known back then). Then this pops up in my feed: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Major rail disruptions between Munich and Berlin for the next few days: www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/g... #DeutscheBahn #GermanRail #Munich #Berlin
Vandalism closes Berlin-Munich rail route until July 10
Deutsche Bahn has announced that trains between Berlin and Munich will be severely disrupted until Thursday, July 10. Here’s what passengers need to know.
www.iamexpat.de
July 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Major rail disruptions between Munich and Berlin for the next few days: www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/g... #DeutscheBahn #GermanRail #Munich #Berlin
Mortimer-Wheelers interpretation of the "Battle Cemetery" at Maiden Castle has been proven to be incorrect after a re-analysis of the skeletal material: www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2518005... #MaidenCastle #MortimerWheeler #Archaeology
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk
May 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Mortimer-Wheelers interpretation of the "Battle Cemetery" at Maiden Castle has been proven to be incorrect after a re-analysis of the skeletal material: www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2518005... #MaidenCastle #MortimerWheeler #Archaeology