America’s Ice Age Hunters
Emerging new discoveries suggest that humans may have been in the Americas over 20,000 years ago.
The Case for Hatteras: Unearthing New Clues to America’s Historic “Lost” Colony
Archaeologists are uncovering tantalizing evidence of buried Elizabethan period culture in North Carolina, providing new leads to the mysterious disappearance of the first British colonists of the Americas.
Burning the Maya Books: The 1562 Tragedy at Mani
Retelling a horrific story of the devastating collision of a Franciscan friar’s “act of faith” and traditional indigenous culture.
When Rome Burned
Through historical records and archaeology, author Anthony Barrett relates a detailed accounting of the Great Fire of Rome and how it profoundly changed the empire’s history.
The First Wave
Discoveries at multiple sites are shedding new light on the earliest dispersal of modern humans out of Africa.
Homo erectus: The First Super Hominin
Remarkable new discoveries have expanded the chronology and geographic range of humanity’s first globe-trotting ancestor.
The Remarkable Skulls of Drimolen
Paleoanthropologist Stephanie Baker relates the amazing discovery of the world's oldest known Homo erectus, an early human ancestor.
Farmers and Warriors
Researchers suggest how the development of agriculture shaped cooperation, competition and conflict among ancient Native American populations.
The Herculaneum Papyri
What do the Herculaneum scrolls have to do with the decipherment of the iconic Rosetta Stone, key to unlocking Egyptian hieroglyphs? These authors explain.
The Mystery of the Tumuli
Over 400 mounds on New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific may mark a human presence predating the current earliest generally accepted dates by thousands of years.
The Shaman’s World
Extending far into human prehistory, the shaman has played a major role in the psyche for survival and our perception of the world around us.
Return to Shanidar
Scientists are opening a new chapter on Neanderthals at the famous Shanidar Cave near the northern edge of Iraq.
Moundbuilders, B.C.
Centuries before the construction of the pyramids of Egypt and the Stonehenge circle in England, ancient people began creating massive monumental earthworks in North America.
New Revelations at Lachish
Remarkable finds at Tel Lachish in Israel are shedding new light on the ancient Canaanites.
African Treasure
Priceless artifacts from Africa tell a story of culture and colonialism.
Marxism, Analogy, and Poststructural Theories in Classical Archaeology
An Academic Essay
Deciphering the Dead in the Royal Tombs of Macedon
A Tale of Forensics, Politics and Nationalism
Uncovering the Early Mycenaeans
Excavations of princely tombs are shedding new light on a formative time before the high florescence of the Mycenaean civilization.
Stela 14: Unlocking the Maya Script
A young woman from Russia made history at the ancient Maya site of Piedras Negras.
Rewriting Prehistory at Stélida
Archaeologists are digging up new clues about ancient toolmakers who quarried on an island hill in the Aegean Sea 200,000 years ago.
