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10 Common Career Tips That Might Be Wrong for You

Advice about the working world can seem helpful, but following it may not help your career flourish.!

The End of an Era

Texans drove their last great herds north in the 1880s.

Wondrium: Wide Variety of Education Videos

Couch-side edutainment for the curious

Ask the Marshall — Saloons, Paniolos and Telegraphs

Was the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas, an integrated saloon during 1876 to 1886, the height of the cattle drive era? This rare interior photo of Chalk Beeson's famous Front Street bar shows bartender Lo Warren (front, right), a Black bartender and cowboys sitting at the rear of the saloon.

Native History Celebrated Large

Only months old, the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City is dedicated to truth-telling.

The lost girls of covid

For 25 years, girls in developing countries have been on a remarkable trajectory of progress. The pandemic is reversing it

Good Bugs

These creative critters offer help to humans in a variety of ways.

“My Dad Wasn't Just A Nobody”

Fifteen people at Rikers died in 2021. These are their stories.

The Purity Trap

These women went to Bible college to deepen their faith. Then they were assaulted— and blamed for it.

THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE

In the early 1960s, archaeologists from around the world descended on the Upper Nile Valley.

Under the Holy City

A long-running excavation in Jerusalem unearths evidence for two of the city’s least-known eras

TURNING SALT INTO GOLD

In the Austrian Alps, generations of miners toiled to extract the ancient world’s most valuable resource

OFF THE GRID

OPLONTIS, ITALY

AT FACE VALUE

Researchers are using new scientific methods to investigate how artists in Roman Egypt customized portraits for the dead

A Brush With Genius

An unprecedented find in central China brings to life the early years of a master calligrapher

Archaeology's Top 10 Discoveries of 2021

Discoveries

ITALIAN MASTER BUILDERS

A 3,500-year-old ritual pool reflects a little-known culture’s agrarian prowess

Piecing Together Maya Creation Stories

Thousands of mural fragments from the city of San Bartolo illustrate how the Maya envisioned their place in the universe

GHOST TRACKS OF WHITE SANDS

Scientists are uncovering fossilized footprints in the New Mexico desert that show how humans and Ice Age animals shared the landscape

GAUL'S UNIVERSITY TOWN

New excavations have revealed the wealth and prestige of an ancient center of learning

Distant Learning

New immigrant students had the most to gain at Virginia’s Justice High—and the most to lose once the pandemic hit.

Up Rooted

Forests have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to outrun climate catastrophe.

Delete Your Internet Footprint

With spies lurking everywhere, how can you keep yourself safe? Here are 25 smart steps, from the editor of HowtoGeek.com.

A Chance to Build a More Inclusive Fed

Recent departures increase pressure to appoint more outsiders and minorities

Are Honeybees Dying Off? It Depends On Whom You Ask

Talk to a local beekeeper, and the potential consequences of the decline of the honeybee population are alarming, causing problems for pollination and sending ripple effects through the food supply chain and the entire ecosystem.

SECRET RITES OF SAMOTHRACE

Reimagining the experience of initiation into an ancient Greek mystery cult

LAND OF THE PICTS

New excavations reveal the truth behind the legend of these fearsome northern warriors

The Pursuit of Wellness

How the ancients attended to mind, body, and soul

THE EQUESTRIAN'S CAVE

Recent discoveries in western Mongolia suggest that nomadic horsemen may have invented a revolutionary technology

Digs & Discoveries

Roman marble cutters, anglo-saxon giant, neanderthal hearing… and much more