Editors' Picks

The Oldest Modernist Paintings

Two thousand years before Picasso, artists in Egypt painted some of the most arresting portraits in the history of art

El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya

Now overgrown by jungle, the ancient site was once the thriving capital of the Maya civilization

Secrets of the Colosseum

A German archaeologist has finally deciphered the Roman amphitheater's amazing underground labyrinth

History Beats

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Author Sharon Waxman digs into the tangle over looted artifacts between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Turkish government
November 14, 2008 | By Sharon Waxman

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization
November 2008 | By Andrew Curry

November 01, 2008 | By Jesse Rhodes

The first dig in 44 years inside the stone circle changed our view of why—and even when—the monument was built
October 2008 | By Dan Jones

Near Mosul, War Has Helped and Hindered Efforts to Excavate the 1,400-Year-Old Dair Mar Elia Monastery
September 16, 2008 | By James Foley

September 01, 2008 | By Jesse Rhodes

Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
July 2008 | By Guy Gugliotta

Debate rages over an Indonesian fossil find
July 2008 | By Guy Gugliotta

Dating the Fossils and Artifacts that Mark the Great Human Migration
July 2008 | By Sarah Zielinski

How the museum's quartz cranium highlights the epic silliness of the new Indiana Jones movie
May 30, 2008 | By Owen Edwards

Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
May 2008 | By Genevieve Rajewski

A modern museum of ancient Greece rises near the Parthenon
February 2008 | By Richard Covington

On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean. A construction contractor from Washington State has spent decades trying to find it
January 2008 | By Frances Maclean

Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age's master builders
February 2008 | By Evan Hadingham

How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?
December 2007 | By Mitch Leslie

Archaeologists unveil a 3-D model of the great city circa A.D. 400
July 01, 2007 | By Andrew Curry

Polar species heat up one of paleontology's great debates
December 2007 | By Mitch Leslie

Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic
November 26, 2007 | By Sarah Zielinski

New evidence reveals a city beneath ancient Alexandria
August 01, 2007 | By Megan Gambino

Two fossils found in Kenya raise evolutionary questions
August 01, 2007 | By Robin T. Reid

Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago
October 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

The ten most significant discoveries in the past 20 years
November 05, 2007 | By Robin T. Reid

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