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Sound Sessions

Part of Jeff Place’s job as an archivist at Smithsonian’s Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is to field questions from around the world about music. And with his desk, nestled amidst original recordings of songs and interviews with some of the biggest names in music, he is well-prep...
December 03, 2007 | By Megan Gambino

Nearly two decades after a Frenchman decoded hieroglyphs on an ancient granite stone, the allure of the Rosetta stone has yet to fade.

Romancing the Stone

An Egyptologist explains the Rosetta stone's lasting allure
November 05, 2007 | By Beth Py-Lieberman

Symbolically Speaking

A Q&A with hieroglyphs expert Janice Kamrin
November 05, 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Amenhotep III (a granite head from the temple complex is his best extant portrait) was succeeded by his son Akhenaten, who revolutionized Egypt

Rebellious Son

Amenhotep III was succeeded by one of the first known monotheists
November 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

Tongue Tied

Some 200 Native American languages are dying out and with them valuable history
October 31, 2007 | By Robin T. Reid

Archaeologists assumed that the great temple had been stripped of all statues

Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple

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

VanDerwarker (examining detritus at Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College, where she worked until June) asks “fundamental questions about how people lived in the past.”

Down to Earth

Anthropologist Amber VanDerwarker is unraveling the mysteries of the ancient Olmec by figuring out what they ate
October 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

How exactly was the Great Pyramid built

Monumental Shift

Tackling an ages-old puzzle, a French architect offers a new theory on how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid at Giza
August 01, 2007 | By Diana Parsell

At about 820 feet above sea level, the North Acropolis, part of the Grand Plaza, is one of Tikal

Snapshot: Tikal

A virtual vacation to Tikal National Park in Guatemala
July 01, 2007 | By Maggie Frank

Petra

Reconstructing Petra

Two thousand years ago, it was the capital of a powerful trading empire. Now archaeologists are piecing together a more complete picture of Jordan's compelling rock city
June 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

Lost Treasure

In Gilgamesh, scholars unearthed literary gold
May 2007 | By David Damrosch

The June 2003 solstice appears at one end of the Thirteen Towers, viewed from the western solar observatory. The sunrise position at the solstice is almost exactly the same as it was during the 4th century B.C.

Return of the Sun Cult

In Peru, scientists discover the oldest solar observatory in the Americas
May 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

Nearly 2,500 tourists a day visit the World Heritage Site, because of an imposed limit.

Saving Machu Picchu

Will the opening of a bridge give new life to the surrounding community or further encroach upon the World Heritage Site?
May 01, 2007 | By Whitney Dangerfield

Sphinx in Alexandria harbor

Raising Alexandria

More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains
April 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

Rano Raraku statue quarry

The Mystery of Easter Island

New findings rekindle old debates about when the first people arrived and why their civilization collapsed
April 01, 2007 | By Whitney Dangerfield

Egyptian queen Cleopatra

Who Was Cleopatra?

Mythology, propaganda, Liz Taylor and the real Queen of the Nile
April 01, 2007 | By Amy Crawford

The 1,000-year-old Archimedes Palimpsest was taken apart, cleaned, stabilized and analyzed.

Reading Between the Lines

Scientists with high-tech tools are deciphering lost writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes
March 2007 | By Mary K. Miller

The tattooed right hand of a Chiribaya mummy

Tattoos

The Ancient and Mysterious History
January 01, 2007 | By Cate Lineberry

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900.

Old World, High Tech

An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time
December 2006 | By Eric Jaffe

Numerous colossal statues of the pharaoh

The Queen Who Would Be King

A scheming stepmother or a strong and effective ruler? History's view of the pharaoh Hatshepsut changed over time
September 2006 | By Elizabeth B. Wilson


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