The Biggest Treasure I Found After Five Decades in Archaeology
Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an…
Archeology
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to prosper—and avoid the biggest mistakes. The…
Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo Western society is largely in the grips of an entrenched mythology that premodern non-Western states and empires were organized despotically, markedly different…
The New Grand Tour
Six million years of human evidence offers a powerful universal education to address humanity’s most significant challenges and opportunities. All of humanity can now take the Grand Tour: a travel…
Ancient Roots: A Promising New Project to Organize Humanity’s Universal Heritage
An international group of researchers and data scientists are creating a comprehensive database of the world’s archaeological knowledge—and changing our understanding of humans’ prehistoric heritage. Archaeology isn’t what it was…
Learning From History, If We Dare
The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times…
Accusation Claims Syrian And Russian Troops Are Looting Palmyra! Indictment Not Proved
Palmyra: “Syrian Troops Looting Ancient City Of Palmyra, Says Archaeologist.” So shouted the highly respected UK Guardian’s headline of June 1, 2016 on the eve of the opening day of this…
Exciting Artifacts Discovered On Second Expedition To Antikythera Shipwreck
Stories about shipwrecks on the regular trade routes round the world have always been exciting news. And most of us are only familiar with the Titanic and the treasures unearthed…
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