Archaeology

New Research

A New Genetic Study Suggests Modern Flores Island Pygmies and Ancient Hobbits Are Unrelated

Armenia

How a Record-Breaking Aerial Tramway Helped Save a Centuries-Old Armenian Monastery

How Feasting Rituals Help Shape Human Civilization

The Battle Over the Memory of the Spanish Civil War

New Research

Neanderthals Hunted in Groups, One More Strike Against the Dumb Brute Myth

Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia

What a Cabinet of Fake Noses Tells Us About How Art Preservation Has Evolved

Newly Unearthed Civil War Bones Speak Silently to the Grim Aftermath of Battle

How Bad Weather Delayed the Norman Invasion of England

New Research

Rat Bones Reveal How Humans Transformed Their Island Environments