Caveman Love, Caveman Thought
Most of us think of the word “neandertal” as an insult. We use it to describe someone who’s backward or not so smart. And why wouldn’t we? After all, our ancestral caveman cousins lacked intelligence...
View ArticleDid Stone Age Europeans Settle in America 20,000 Years Ago?
Coming up, archeologists have long believed the first Americans came from Asia. But new artifacts found along the eastern seaboard suggests they may have come from Europe instead. Dennis Stanford,...
View ArticleAfrican Pottery Gives Hints of the Earliest Dairy Farmers
When did earliest humans make cheese? Butter? Yogurt? New archeological findings suggest humans were in fact processing milk 7,000 years ago, as researchers examining pottery from from a site in Libya...
View ArticleThe Brontosaurus Is Back!
You know him from the opening song of the Flintstones, but the poor Brontosaurus has never gotten his due credit in the annals of science—until now.Back in 1903, a paleontologist named Elmer Riggs...
View ArticleThese Huge Scorpions Patrolled the Seas 460 Million Years Ago
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Researchers with the Iowa Geological Survey have discovered fossils belonging to a new species of scorpion that patrolled the oceans over 460...
View ArticleSnake Goddess
The archaeological discovery of an ancient Greek civilization turns out to be, at least partially, a mistake. Kurt Andersen talks with scholar Kenneth Lapatin about the mystery of the Snake Goddess.
View ArticleAbove Picardy
Picardy, Northern France, has long been famous for a towering gothic cathedral in Amiens, and for the battlefield of the Somme. But in recent years the area has also become known for the traces of...
View ArticleRediscovering Machu Picchu
Mark Adams describes the discovery of Machu Picchu and his own investigation into allegations that the Yale professor who discovered the ruins, Hiram Bingham III, was not the hero he’s made out to be....
View ArticleThe Multiple Personalities of National Geographic
Last month, the NatGeo channel unveiled "Diggers," a show about treasure hunters with metal detectors that the Society for American Archaeology said glorifies looting. "Diggers" is only one of a slew...
View ArticleUnseen Titanic
Hampton Sides, author of the article “Unseen Titanic,” in National Geographic’s April issue, and Dr. James Delgado, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) archaeologist who was part of...
View ArticlePiltdown at 100: A Look Back on Science's Biggest Hoax
A hundred years ago this week, a human-like skull and ape-like jaw were presented at a special meeting of the Geological Society in London. The so-called "Piltdown Man" became widely accepted as a...
View ArticleAncient Nubia African Kingdom on the Nile
Photographer Chester Higgins talks about new discoveries about ancient Nubia, its remarkable history, architecture, and culture, and legacy. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied Nubia’s...
View ArticlePiltdown at 100: A Look Back on Science's Biggest Hoax
A hundred years ago, a human-like skull and ape-like jaw were presented at a special meeting of the Geological Society in London. The so-called "Piltdown Man" became widely accepted as a crucial link...
View ArticleDueling Dinosaurs
Matthew Carrano, Curator of Dinosauria at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, discusses the dueling dinosaur fossils that were discovered in Montana in 2006, by commercial...
View ArticleProtecting Egyptian Antiquities from Looting
For centuries, Egyptian archaeological sites have been looted–most recently to feed the black market trade of antiquities. Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Monica Hanna talks about the looting situation in...
View ArticlePiltdown at 100: A Look Back on Science's Biggest Hoax
A hundred years ago, a human-like skull and ape-like jaw were presented at a special meeting of the Geological Society in London. The so-called "Piltdown Man" became widely accepted as a crucial link...
View ArticleDigging Up Ancient Artifacts, Human Remains, Lost Civilizations
For this week’s Please Explain, Marilyn Johnson, author of Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble, and archaeologist Dr. David Hurst Thomas dig up the details of the...
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The Things They Carried (in 1,500 B.C.)
These days, archaeologists don’t go around discovering tombs filled with ancient treasure. But that’s exactly what happened this spring to a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists from the University...
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Ancient mammoth bones discovered under Oregon State’s stadium
Archaeologists removed ancient bones discovered by construction workers at Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium Monday. Photo courtesy of Loren Davis/Oregon State UniversityAn expansion project at...
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Freed from ISIS, Palmyra’s treasured ruins ‘have blood on them’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThe post Freed from ISIS, Palmyra’s treasured ruins ‘have blood on them’ appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
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Could the remains of Queen Nefertiti be hidden behind King Tut’s tomb?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioIVETTE FELICIANO: In Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, archeologists want to know what, if anything, lies behind the tomb’s 3,000-year-old limestone...
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As ISIS loses ground, scholars return to beloved historical sites
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: When ISIS captured the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria last year, they destroyed and looted priceless pieces of Middle Eastern history.The city was retaken...
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Ancient fossils from Morocco mess up modern human origins
Composite reconstruction of 300,000-year-old fossils from the site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. Researchers say the fossils are the earliest known remains of Homo sapiens. Image via Philipp Gunz, MPI...
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