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

Human settlements in Amazonia much older than previously thought

Mesopotamian King Sargon II envisioned ancient city Karkemish as western Assyrian capital

Crusaders made love and war, genetic study finds

First genetic study of the Crusaders confirms that warriors mixed and had families with local people in the near East, and died together in battle.

Neolithic site reveals transition from hunting and gathering to animal herding

Archaeologists examine urine salt levels in the soil to reconstruct the evolution of sheep and goat domestication at 10,000-year-old Turkish settlement.

At last, acknowledging royal women’s political power

Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age

Need for social skills helped shape modern human face

The modern human face is distinctively different to that of our near relatives and now researchers believe its evolution may have been partly driven by our need for good social skills.

Archaeologists discover lost medieval city in Africa

Scholars on the ground have discovered what they believe to be the remains of a long lost medieval city in Ethiopia.

Ancient DNA reveals new branches of the Denisovan family tree

Archaeologists identify first prehistoric figurative cave art in Balkans

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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.