Traveling Upright: Humanity’s First Global Ancestor
Decades of fossil discoveries have illuminated our understanding of a deep-time human ancestral species that persisted and spread across the globe well more than one million years ago.
Yin, the Lost City of Kings
Decades of excavation and investigation have revealed China’s last magnificent Bronze Age Shang Dynasty capital, the city that gave birth to the Chinese script.
The Architectural and Archaeological Legacy of the Christian Persecution
For contemporary archeologists hoping to come upon the leftovers of the Rome of the Caesars, they must often search beneath the ubiquitous layers of the Rome of the Popes.
The Papantla Pole Dancers
An ancient Mesoamerican community performed a precarious ritual dance to curry favor with their gods.
The Masters of Akrotiri
In the world of the Bronze Age, an ancient people on an Aegean island created some of Europe’s earliest masterworks of art.
Getting to Know Them: The Neanderthal Heritage
A ‘golden age’ of research has enlightened scientists and the general public alike about who the Neanderthals really were.
The Red Queen of Palenque
The archaeology and the story: The critical role a great Maya queen, and women generally, played in Maya society.
The Ten Tombs
A renowned scholar shares his perspective and research on fascinating tombs and finds bearing on the historical Jesus and his times.
Beyond the Aegean: exploring ancient mobility in western Anatolia
Mobility and change between ancient western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean was a complex and impactful process, says this scholar.
Return to Meadowcroft
Over 50 years after excavation began at Meadowcroft rockshelter, it still ranks among the most remarkable sites of early human habitation in the Americas: an interview with archaeologist James...
Lost Worlds of Arabia 2
THE UPDATE: Scientists have unearthed a wealth of new evidence, revealing thousands of years of pre-Islamic human habitation and civilization in a seemingly unforgivable desert land.
The City Under The Museum: A Pictorial
An excavated plot preserved beneath the Acropolis Museum in Athens has revealed remarkable ancient remains of a large urban community.
Warriors of the Clouds: Kuélap, a Chachapoya Citadel
High in the Andes mountains, before the Inca, a remarkable ancient culture thrived in northern Peru.
Ancient Magnificence: A Photographic Journey
A walk through the incredible remains of Akrotiri, Greece's Bronze Age Pompeii.
The Once and Future Cataclysm: A Pictorial
The archaeological sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and much more, are once again under the threat of a fiery volcanic fury.
The Watery Wonders of Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome's mighty engineers excelled in one of the great architectural wonders of the world: the aqueduct.
Pushing Back the Timeline on the Earliest Stone Tools
New discoveries in Kenya may be changing long-accepted paradigms on stone toolmaking.
Laetoli 2: The Unfolding Story
A NEW UPDATE: 3.66-million-year-old footprint finds at the iconic hominin site of Laetoli may be changing what we know about ancient human-related ancestors.
