Science
Archaeology
Archaeology's Top 10 Discoveries of 2021
Discoveries
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
A Brush With Genius
An unprecedented find in central China brings to life the early years of a master calligrapher
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE
In the early 1960s, archaeologists from around the world descended on the Upper Nile Valley.
3 min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
Under the Holy City
A long-running excavation in Jerusalem unearths evidence for two of the city’s least-known eras
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
TURNING SALT INTO GOLD
In the Austrian Alps, generations of miners toiled to extract the ancient world’s most valuable resource
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
OFF THE GRID
OPLONTIS, ITALY
2 min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
AT FACE VALUE
Researchers are using new scientific methods to investigate how artists in Roman Egypt customized portraits for the dead
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
When Isis Was Queen
At the ancient Egyptian temples of Philae, Nubians gave new life to a vanishing religious tradition
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
ITALIAN MASTER BUILDERS
A 3,500-year-old ritual pool reflects a little-known culture’s agrarian prowess
7 min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
Piecing Together Maya Creation Stories
Thousands of mural fragments from the city of San Bartolo illustrate how the Maya envisioned their place in the universe
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
GHOST TRACKS OF WHITE SANDS
Scientists are uncovering fossilized footprints in the New Mexico desert that show how humans and Ice Age animals shared the landscape
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
GAUL'S UNIVERSITY TOWN
New excavations have revealed the wealth and prestige of an ancient center of learning
9 min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
Who Were The Samaritans?
Investigating a once-powerful sect that has preserved its sacred traditions for millennia
10 min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
Digs & Discoveries
Roman marble cutters, anglo-saxon giant, neanderthal hearing… and much more
10+ min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
SECRET RITES OF SAMOTHRACE
Reimagining the experience of initiation into an ancient Greek mystery cult
10+ min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
LAND OF THE PICTS
New excavations reveal the truth behind the legend of these fearsome northern warriors
10+ min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
The Pursuit of Wellness
How the ancients attended to mind, body, and soul
10+ min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
THE EQUESTRIAN'S CAVE
Recent discoveries in western Mongolia suggest that nomadic horsemen may have invented a revolutionary technology
7 min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
THE PRICE OF PURPLE
Archaeologists have found new evidence of a robust dye industry that endured on the Mediterranean coast for millennia
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
IN THE REIGN OF THE SUN KINGS
Old Kingdom pharaohs faced a reckoning that reshaped Egypt’s balance of power
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
WEAVING FOR THEIR ANCESTORS
For 1,000 years, the Paracas people of Peru expressed their vivid conception of life and death through textiles
10 min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
The Great Wall of Mongolia
A nomadic medieval dynasty constructed a 450-mile barrier to help manage their sprawling empire
8 min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
CANADA'S FORGOTTEN CAPITAL
Beneath the streets of Old Montreal, the rubble of a short-lived Parliament building offers a glimpse into a young country’s growing pains
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
Anubian Kingdom Rises
Excavations at a city on the Nile reveal the origins of an ancient African power
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
A Rare Egg
Egyptian ostrich egg perfume case
1 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
WALKING INTO NEW WORLDS
Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
Wealth of a Medieval Power Broker
In England’s far northeast, a commanding bishop built a chapel rivaling the grandest in Europe
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
SOUTH AFRICA'S FATEFUL SHIPWRECK
A seventeenth-century vessel foundered off the coast and transformed a nation’s history
9 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
SIBERIAN ISLAND ENIGMA
It’s hard to imagine that a tiny tree ring could help solve one of the medieval world’s most puzzling mysteries.
2 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
RESISTING ROME
How a Celtic tribe fought to defend their Iberian homeland against the emperor’s legions
10+ min |