At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt.
Was a new regional power, once thought of as a bloodthirsty invading force, actually a catalyst for ancient Egypt’s most prosperous era? Egypt’s carefully recorded lists of rulers run pharaoh ...
Mercury is often found in Mesoamerican tombs in the form of a powdery red pigment called cinnabar, but its liquid form is extremely rare. So it was with some surprise that Sergio Gomez, an ...
At Fröjel, a Viking Age site on the west coast of Gotland, archaeologists search for evidence of a workshop that included a silver-smelting operation.(Daniel Weiss) The accepted image of the ...
Members of the public regularly get in touch with Charles Stanish, an expert on Andean cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two years ago, Stanish received a call from a man in ...