Anthropology
Why Oliver Sacks is One of the Great Modern Adventurers
The neurologist’s latest investigations of the mind explore the mystery of hallucinations – including his own
How Humans Became Moral Beings
In a new book, anthropologist Christopher Boehm traces the steps our species went through to attain a conscience
Q and A: Rick Potts
The Smithsonian anthropologist turned heads when he proposed that climate change was the driving force in human evolution
Sculpting Evolution
A series of statues by sculptor John Gurche brings us face to face with our early ancestors
How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be
The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades
A Human Rights Breakthrough in Guatemala
A chance discovery of police archives may reveal the fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared in Guatemala's civil war
Genghis Khan’s Treasures
Beneath the ruins of Genghis Khan’s capital city in Central Asia, archaeologists discovered artifacts from cultures near and far
Solving a 17th-Century Crime
Forensic anthropologists at the National Museum of Natural History find answers to a colonial cold case
The Pygmies' Plight
A correspondent who chronicled their lives in central African rain forests returns a decade later and is shocked by what he finds
Chasing the Lydian Hoard
Author Sharon Waxman digs into the tangle over looted artifacts between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Turkish government
In Iraq, a Monastery Rediscovered
Near Mosul, war has helped and hindered efforts to excavate the 1,400-year-old Dair Mar Elia monastery
Digging Up George Washington
Archaeologists continue to uncover more about the nation's first president
The Great Human Migration
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
Amy Chua
The key to the rise of the Romans, the Mongols—and the U.S.? Ethnic diversity, Chua says in a new book
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