Science
archaeology
samhain revival
looking for the roots of halloween in ireland’s boyne valley.
10 min |
november/december 2016
archaeology
korea's half moon palace
an unexpected source begins to tell the story of a long-forgotten ancient asian royal residence.
4 min |
november/december 2016
archaeology
a last day, reclaimed
called the great war in its day for its unparalleled scope and bloodshed, world war i still has stories to tell of both violence and humanity.
10+ min |
november/december 2016
archaeology
the temple builders of malta
how an isolated island culture became europe’s most sophisticated neolithic civilization.
10+ min |
november/december 2016
archaeology
piltdown's lone forger
it centers on piltdown man, paleoanthropology’s greatest whodunit.
3 min |
november/december 2016
Archaeology
December 7, 1941
The underwater archaeology of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
10+ min |
January/February 2017
Archaeology
Fragments Of Ancestral Memory
Native texts discovered in a remote church in Mexico belong to an ancient sacred tradition
9 min |
September/October 2018
Archaeology
Landscape Of Secrets
Archaeologists confront painful memories of the Spanish Civil War
10+ min |
September/October 2017
Archaeology
Painted Worlds
Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche
10 min |
September/October 2017
Archaeology
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.
2 min |
March/April 2017
Archaeology
Seeing Beauty In The Mundane
Looking for traces of a celebrated but unusual artist in suburban Idaho.
4 min |
January/February 2017
Archaeology
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.
2 min |
November/December 2017
Archaeology
Memento Mori
A cemetery used for centuries is an expression of the enduring relationship between the living and the dead.
5 min |
March/April 2017
Archaeology
The Wall At The End Of The Empire
The long and varied history of life along Hadrian’s Wall.
10+ min |
May/June 2017
Archaeology
​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.
3 min |
May/June 2017
Archaeology
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.
1 min |
May/June 2017
Archaeology
One + One = Forty-Nine
A Crocodile Mummy’s Many Surprises.
3 min |
May/June 2017
Archaeology
Children of Giza
Finds from a cemetery near the pyramids are illuminating the Egyptian view of youth and the afterlife.
3 min |
July/August 2016
Archaeology
Top 10 Discoveries of 2015
Archaeology’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds.
10+ min |
January/February 2016
Archaeology
Angkor Thom's Divine Medicine
An extensive 12th-century hospital network is being revealed in Cambodia.
6 min |
January/February 2018
Archaeology
The First Australians
The story of the continent’s earliest human arrivals is being revealed at a rock shelter in remote and challenging territory
10 min |
July/August 2017
Archaeology
The City At The Beginning Of The World
The only Maya city with an urban grid may embody an ancient creation myth
10+ min |
July/August 2018
Archaeology
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
10+ min |
July/August 2018
Archaeology
Paradise Changed
An ancient Peruvian city stood at the crossroads of technologies
3 min |
July/August 2018
Archaeology
A Night Out In Leicestershire
A Night Out In Leicestershire
1 min |
May/June 2018
Archaeology
Exploring A Prehistoric Borderland
Hunter-gatherers in northern Europe withstood the spread of agriculture for 1,500 years
9 min |