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When The Inuit Met The Basques
A site in southeastern Canada bears evidence of surprising 17th-century interactions between peoples from disparate parts of the world
Shipping Stone
A wreck off the Sicilian coast offers a rare look into the world of Byzantine commerce
Westminster Abbey's Hidden History
Far above the royal pomp and circumstance, archaeologists unexpectedly discover seven centuries of England’s past
An Etruscan Family Story
Surprising evidence of daily life and of one of Rome’s greatest conflicts is found in a wealthy residence in Tuscany
Timelines
Tracking when humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans crossed paths—and what became of their offspring.
Fire In The Fens
A short-lived settlement provides an unparalleled view of bronze age life in eastern england.
Digging Up Digital Music
Archaeologists think of stone tools in terms of “technologies”—the particular ways that they were made and used—that help us understand the cultures that produced them. Today we have our own technologies, but they come and go at a vastly different pace. Their life spans are measured not in thousands of years, but in months and even days. To modern digital technology, 65 years is an eon.
Hidden From View
One of Cappadocia’s underground cities may yet yield clues about its history.
The Blackener's Cave
Viking Age outlaws, taboo, and ritual in Iceland’s lava fields.
After The Battle
The defeat of a Scottish army at the 1650 Battle of Dunbar was just the beginning of an epic ordeal for the survivors.
samhain revival
looking for the roots of halloween in ireland’s boyne valley.
korea's half moon palace
an unexpected source begins to tell the story of a long-forgotten ancient asian royal residence.
a last day, reclaimed
called the great war in its day for its unparalleled scope and bloodshed, world war i still has stories to tell of both violence and humanity.
the temple builders of malta
how an isolated island culture became europe’s most sophisticated neolithic civilization.
piltdown's lone forger
it centers on piltdown man, paleoanthropology’s greatest whodunit.
Ka-Ching!
Ka-Ching!
While You Are Waiting
While You Are Waiting
Late Paleolithic Masterpieces
Late Paleolithic Masterpieces
A Residence Fit For A President
New evidence revises a long-held belief about James Monroe’s home
Kings Of Cooperation
The Olmec city of Tres Zapotes may have owed its longevity to a new form of government.
Conquistador Contagion
Conquistador Contagion
December 7, 1941
The underwater archaeology of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Top 10 Discoveries of 2015
Archaeology’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds.
The Wall At The End Of The Empire
The long and varied history of life along Hadrian’s Wall.
The Hidden Stories Of The York Gospel
Around a.d. 990, the monks at Saint Augustine’s monastery in Canterbury, England, made an illuminated copy of the four gospels of the New Testament.
Angkor Thom's Divine Medicine
An extensive 12th-century hospital network is being revealed in Cambodia.
Memento Mori
A cemetery used for centuries is an expression of the enduring relationship between the living and the dead.
Scroll Search
In 1946 or 1947, a Bedouin goatherd found a number of ancient texts in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea and the ruins of the town of Qumran in the West Bank.
The Third Reich's Arctic Outpost
In 1943, the German navy constructed a secret base on the island of Alexandra Land in the Arctic Ocean.
One + One = Forty-Nine
A Crocodile Mummy’s Many Surprises.