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Irbil, the Iraqi City the US Is Now Defending, Is One of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Places in the World
Irbil, Iraq, has a long, long, long history
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Humanity’s Legacy Might Be The Holes We Leave Behind
The last remnants of human civilizations might be the holes we carve into the earth
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The Flores “Hobbit” Might Not Be a New Species at All
A long-standing debate on the original findings has been reignited
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These Diaries, of Poet Siegfried Sassoon, Capture the Chaos of WWI
Siegfried Sassoon’s poems captured life in the trenches of WWI
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Mummies From Around the World Had Hardened Arteries
Mummies from cultures across the globe have one thing in common—plaque in their arteries
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How Big Were Romans’ Feet?
A bioarchaeologist proposes one method to answer that question
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In 1665, a British Warship Mysteriously Blew Up—And Soon We Might Know Why
349 years ago, the warship The London exploded in the Thames Estuary. Now archaeologists are trying to figure out why
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The Last Crew Member Who Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Died
Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk said he never regretted his involvement in the bombing
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Natural Chocolate Is Actually a Reddish Color
Chocolate didn’t turn brown until chemists got their hands on it
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Pollution Beat People to the South Pole
Before people ever made it to the South Pole, a pollutant had beaten us there
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Don’t Worry Mr. Nixon, the National Zoo’s Pandas Figured Out How to Have Sex
President Nixon wanted to make sure Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing had enough time to “learn the ropes”
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This Guy Simultaneously Raised a Chimp and a Baby in Exactly the Same Way to See What Would Happen
When treated as a human, the baby chimp acted like one—until her physiology and development held her back
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Archaeologists Are Excavating the Battleground that Inspired ‘The Last of the Mohicans’
For these students, archaeology field school is taking place on a very famous battlefield
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Looking Back at NASA’s Strange Mobile Lunar Laboratory
Unfortunately, the odd-looking MOLAB remained earthbound
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Along I-95, 5,000 Years of History
Archaeological excavations along I-95 are digging up the past
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The Horrific Downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 Has Echoes in History
Lessons from history hint at what might happen next
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Ancient Tooth Plaque Shows Our Ancestors Used to Feast on Weeds
Purple nutsedge is a pest today, but thousands of years ago it was probably valued for its cavity-preventing properties
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You Can Now Riffle Through the Same Library Charles Darwin Used Aboard the Beagle
The digital library includes 195,000 pages of text and 5,000 illustrations
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Archaeologists Are Hunting for the Lost French Fleet That Nearly Conquered Spanish Florida
In 1565 a fleet of French ships was destroyed in a hurricane, effectively ending France’s hopes of territory in Florida
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The Wrecked Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Is Finally Being Towed Away
The ship’s remains will be broken down for scrap metal
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