The Moses Scroll: Fake or Real?
Some scholars are now questioning the 136-year-old forgery verdict of a remarkable but controversial ancient document.
Female Pharaohs, Political Power & the Glories of Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Kara Cooney
In this second installment of the Popular Archaeology Anniversary Issue, author and teacher Richard Marranca interviews Dr. Kara Cooney, the popular American Egyptologist perhaps best known for hosting television...
Through Pilgrim Eyes: The Creation of Significance
A great monastic dynasty, little known to most, opens a window to understanding Ethiopia’s cultural past, and this country’s profound place in world history.
The Anniversary Issue
The top 10 stories of Popular Archaeology's first 10 years.
Saqqara: Gateway to Eternity
Archaeologists are unearthing tantalizing new finds that are shedding more light on our understanding of Egyptian mortuary cults.
Tutankhamun, Nefertiti, and Akhenaten
AN INTERVIEW WITH EGYPTOLOGIST DR. KARA COONEY
A Few Words About Mummies
AN INTERVIEW WITH RENOWNED EGYPTOLOGIST AND MUMMY EXPERT DR. SALIMA IKRAM.
Modeling Ancient Maya Landscapes
How LiDAR technology and traditional knowledge are converging to reveal the extent and complexity of ancient Maya settlement at El Pilar.
Heritage at Risk
Global warming challenges archaeologists to race to document and preserve at-risk heritage sites in the southeastern U.S. before they disappear forever.
Invisible Beauty
A new exhibit explores aesthetics and scale In everyday objects of the past at the Penn Museum.
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.
