Popular Archeology

The First Siberians
by No Author
Denisova Cave has yielded remarkable new implications and new questions about early humans in Asia.
Hidden Majesty: The Lost Grave of Richard III
by Laura Scandiffio
Writing for young readers, author Laura Scandiffio relates the detailed story about the remarkable burial discovery of King Richard III and what it says about the real king, beyond the popular accounts and tales of infamy.
The Milpa Way
by Richard Kern
A filmmaker explores how Maya forest gardeners are shedding new light on the ancient Maya collapse.
Revealing Barara: The Long-Lost African Medieval City
by Samuel Walker
Scholars on the ground claim to have finally discovered remains of the legendary Holy Grail of medieval cities in present-day Ethiopia.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
by Kathleen Bickford Berzock
A new book and exhibition tell the story of medieval Saharan Africa and how it made history.
Church and State in Late Roman Antiquity
by Paul Joseph De Mola, FRGS
If you think you understand the politics of ‘church and state’ relations, then you may not understand the nature of Christianity in ancient Rome.
The Fall of Babylon: A Reassessment
by Rabbi Steven Fisdel
The author's perspective on what and who sealed the fate of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

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Cover Stories

New light on contested identity of medieval skeleton found at Prague Castle

Here’s how early humans evaded immunodeficiency viruses

CryoEM reveals structural effect of mutation that made humans, but not apes, immune to SIV.

20-million-year-old skull suggests complex brain evolution in monkeys, apes

New study reveals that brain enlargement and modern features evolved repeatedly in anthropoids.

Nordic Bronze Age attracted wide variety of migrants to Denmark

Results of largest Denmark multidisciplinary human mobility investigation to date.

A Stone Age boat building site has been discovered underwater

Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya

The lake was thought to be the site of an ancient catastrophic event that left several hundred people dead, but the first ancient whole genome data from India shows that diverse groups of people...

Humans migrated to Mongolia much earlier than previously believed

Archaeologists unearth stone tools made 45,000 years ago.

Ancient feces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites

Neanderthals commonly suffered from ‘swimmer’s ear’

Uncovering Zedekiah’s Destroyed City

New archaeological finds uncovered from two separate excavations in 2019 likely support the biblical account of the destruction of Jerusalem and its First Temple in 587/586 BCE.

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A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3,000-year-old prosthesis

Multispectral imaging reveals ancient Hebrew inscription undetected for over 50 years

Military correspondence from the First Temple period discovered on reverse side of well-studied artifact at The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv University researchers say.

New research reveals earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa

Scientists have pioneered a technique to directly date prehistoric rock paintings in southern Africa, which revealed dates much older than previously thought.