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piltdown's lone forger
it centers on piltdown man, paleoanthropology’s greatest whodunit.
December 7, 1941
The underwater archaeology of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Fragments Of Ancestral Memory
Native texts discovered in a remote church in Mexico belong to an ancient sacred tradition
Landscape Of Secrets
Archaeologists confront painful memories of the Spanish Civil War
Painted Worlds
Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche
Town Beneath The Waves
In a chance find just off Greece’s Peloponnese, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a once-thriving Early Bronze Age settlement.
Seeing Beauty In The Mundane
Looking for traces of a celebrated but unusual artist in suburban Idaho.
The Hidden Stories Of The York Gospel
Around a.d. 990, the monks at Saint Augustine’s monastery in Canterbury, England, made an illuminated copy of the four gospels of the New Testament.
Memento Mori
A cemetery used for centuries is an expression of the enduring relationship between the living and the dead.
The Wall At The End Of The Empire
The long and varied history of life along Hadrian’s Wall.
Scroll Search
In 1946 or 1947, a Bedouin goatherd found a number of ancient texts in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea and the ruins of the town of Qumran in the West Bank.
The Third Reich's Arctic Outpost
In 1943, the German navy constructed a secret base on the island of Alexandra Land in the Arctic Ocean.
One + One = Forty-Nine
A Crocodile Mummy’s Many Surprises.
Children of Giza
Finds from a cemetery near the pyramids are illuminating the Egyptian view of youth and the afterlife.
Top 10 Discoveries of 2015
Archaeology’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds.
Angkor Thom's Divine Medicine
An extensive 12th-century hospital network is being revealed in Cambodia.
The First Australians
The story of the continent’s earliest human arrivals is being revealed at a rock shelter in remote and challenging territory
The City At The Beginning Of The World
The only Maya city with an urban grid may embody an ancient creation myth
Haiti's Royal Past
An early 19th-century palace is a reminder of the ambitious monarchy that rose from the ashes of the Haitian Revolution
Paradise Changed
An ancient Peruvian city stood at the crossroads of technologies
A Night Out In Leicestershire
A Night Out In Leicestershire
Exploring A Prehistoric Borderland
Hunter-gatherers in northern Europe withstood the spread of agriculture for 1,500 years