An eBook Primer
The Lords of the Fifth Sun
Gods, calendars, and human sacrifice in the world of the ancient Aztecs.
The Gates of Rome
Author and scholar Frank Korn relates the story of the major walls and gates of the Eternal City.
Socrates: A Few Words
A brief Interview with Dr. Paul Cartledge about the man Socrates.
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 Olympics: Origins, Events & Modern Reinvention
An interview with Dr. Paul Cartledge.
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 Milpa Cycle
The way the ancient Maya used their forest environment was key to their development and prosperity as a civilization, and, contrary to the traditional or conventional conceptions about the...
Milos, Greece’s Unsung Ancient Island Paradise
A personal pictorial: compared to the better-known Aegean vacation hotspots of Santorini and Mykonos, the island of Milos often goes unnoticed. But this ancient island paradise easily goes toe-to-toe...
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.
Otium and the Roman Dream
Ancient Rome's rich and famous lived in enviable style and excess, and the Roman villa was its quintessence.
The Ten Tombs
A renowned scholar shares his perspective and research on fascinating tombs and finds bearing on the historical Jesus and his times.
Uncovering Homer & Troy
An Interview with Dr. Paul Cartledge: Homer and the truth behind the ancient city of Troy.
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.
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.




