Continent's smallest meat-eating dinosaur discovered!
When you think of dinosaurs, what comes to mind? Hulking creature? Gargantuan teeth? What about something the size of a small house cat? In a story that everyone's inner child will love, researchers in...
View ArticleEuropean Mummies Found in China, and New Discoveries on the Origin of Dogs
A story published this week reports that Chinese archaeologists have found nearly-intact mummies of people who lived in a desolate desert in Northwestern China nearly 4,000 years ago. But they were not...
View ArticleArcheologists' Major Discovery at Site of Civil War Prison
Just months before the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, archeologists in Georgia have discovered the location of a stockade used for Camp Lawton, a Confederate prison camp which housed Union...
View ArticleBritish Archaeologists May Have Found a Lost King
Update: British archeologists have confirmed the identity of the skeleton as that of Richard III using DNA testing. Last week, British archaeologists announced they’d found what appeared to be the...
View ArticleHelp Rewrite History
For over a hundred years, boxes of cornflake-sized scraps of ancient paper have been tucked away at Oxford. Waiting to be decoded. And now you can help shed light on what they say.The fragments are...
View ArticleThe Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
New York Times reporter Margalit Fox tells a real-life intellectual detective story about how an ancient language on tablets unearthed in Crete was deciphered. In The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest...
View ArticleOur Missing Ancestor
Jamie Shreeve, National Geographic magazine’s executive editor for science talks about why DNA from a skeleton found in a cave in Russia adds a mysterious new member to the human family. His latest...
View ArticleArchaeological Dig Uncovers Nation's Oldest Black Community
The Eastern Shore of Maryland is like nowhere else in America. An hour from Washington, D.C., it’s geographically and culturally unique, as a place on the water where the north and south meet.But the...
View ArticleWhat New DNA Analysis Reveals about Inbreeding among Ancient Humans
Researchers recently analyzed bones that date back more than 300,000 years that were found in Spain. Wall Street Journal science writer Robert Lee Hotz explains why the DNA in those bones reveals that...
View ArticleExtremists Set off Explosions at Ancient Syrian Temple
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.In Syria, the latest major attack by extremists targeted an ancient temple in the city of Palmyra. Monitors at the Syrian Observatory for Human...
View ArticleTeen Sexting, Immigration Limbo, High-Tech Indiana Jones
November 12, 2015: 1. Schools, Cops Take Notice as Teen Sexting Becomes New Norm | 2. Undocumented Texans Wait in Immigration Limbo | 3. The Beginning of The End for The Syrian Civil War? | 4. First...
View ArticleTracing the History of Islam
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Two ancient pages found at a university in the United Kingdom may be from the oldest known copy of the Quran. Researchers at the University of...
View ArticleCaves And Climate, Environmental Archeology, Scanning The Past. Nov 23, 2018,...
When you think of an archaeologist, you might imagine a scientist in the field wielding shovels and pickaxes, screening through dirt to uncover artifacts and structures buried deep in the ground. But...
View ArticleJane Mayer and Evan Osnos on the Balance of Power in a New Washington
President Biden can justifiably claim a mandate for his agenda. Yet Democratic majorities in Congress are slim, and Mitch McConnell remains a force to be reckoned with. The staff writers Jane Mayer and...
View ArticleUnearthing Entombed
Now that we are some sixty years into the digital era, the early days of modern computers are growing distant and mysterious to us. The field of game archeology seeks to uncover the origins and uses of...
View ArticleUnearthing Entombed
Now that we are some sixty years into the digital era, the early days of modern computers are growing distant and mysterious to us. The field of game archeology seeks to uncover the origins and uses of...
View ArticleWhat Gibraltar's Caves Tell Us About Neanderthals
At the base of the rock of Gibraltar, off the south coast of Spain, are the great Gorham and Vanguard caves — more akin to cathedrals than your average grottos. Rising sea levels have encroached on the...
View ArticleWhat Gibraltar's Caves Tell Us About Neanderthals
At the base of the rock of Gibraltar, off the south coast of Spain, are the great Gorham and Vanguard caves — more akin to cathedrals than your average grottos. Rising sea levels have encroached on the...
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