Short-form archaeology investigations focused on real sites, real artifacts, and cautious interpretation.
Follow the evidence across three distinct investigation lanes.
Recent investigations, summarized with the evidence up front.
A widely circulated claim suggests a 20-centimeter meteoritic iron artifact was discovered at the 3,000-year-old Sanxingdui site. A forensic look at the...
At Marathousa 1 in southern Greece, researchers recovered an 81-centimeter alder wood tool from waterlogged sediments dated to roughly 430,000 years ago. A...
Around 325 BC, a Greek navigator named Pytheas sailed past the edge of the known world, describing a frozen sea and a sun that never set. For centuries, ancient...
Thousands of linear feet of stone walls snake through the forests of Lady Smith, Quebec. A forensic look at the competing claims—from 19th-century logging and...
Start with the orientation page, then follow an arc to see how the evidence accumulates.
