Location Profiles

Avenue of the Dead at Teotihuacan

The Walls of Teotihuacan May Finally Be Speaking

From the Archaeology Desk: Stand in the Avenue of the Dead at Teotihuacan long enough,...
Cutimbo Peru

Cutimbo, Peru: How Much of the “Inca” Stonework Tradition Actually Predates the Inca?

From the Archaeology Desk: Cutimbo, Peru: How Much of the "Inca" Stonework Tradition Actually Predates...
Ancient Nineveh Returns

A Voice from Ancient Nineveh Returns

From the Archaeology Desk Sometimes archaeology doesn't uncover a lost city. Sometimes it uncovers the...
The Faces That Never Blink

The Faces That Never Blink

Pech Merle, the Wandjina, and the Medieval Manuscript Everyone Gets Wrong Real cave art, Indigenous...
Wonder Rises from the Sea

Another Wonder Rises from the Sea

From the Archaeology Desk Off the coast of Alexandria, divers have lifted twenty-two stone blocks...
20 July Blog

The Nazca Lines, and the Ancient Transportation Problem Nobody Has Solved

From the Archaeology Desk Some archaeological mysteries aren't about what was built. They're about how...
Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu and the Precision That Still Captivates Us

From the Archaeology Desk Some places are mysterious because we don't know what they were....
Stonehenge on Summer Solstice

Stonehenge and the Questions That Refuse to Go Away

From the Archaeology Desk Some monuments are remarkable because they survived. Stonehenge is remarkable because,...
Nabta Playa

Nabta Playa and the People Who Learned to Read the Sky

From the Archaeology Desk Sometimes the most remarkable discovery isn't what people built. It's what...
Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe and the History Still Waiting Underground

From the Archaeology Desk Sometimes archaeology doesn't answer a question. It asks a better one....