4+ hour, 1+ min ago   (162+ words) Shipwrecks have long fascinated oceanographer Robert Ballard, who became renowned for locating the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985. He talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about how that discovery 12,000 feet beneath the Atlantic changed him, and about the efforts of…...

5+ hour, 9+ min ago   (371+ words) An excavation project at a Bronze Age site could see the area removed from a register of at-risk historical locations, the government has said. Ancient remains at Flag Fen archaeological park near Peterborough are deteriorating because of degrading groundwater levels,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (245+ words) Imagine it's the future. Paleographers at Harvard III University (New Earth) today announced a major breakthrough in their ongoing attempt to decipher the so-called "Trump Stone," an enigmatic series of seemingly unrelated messages inscribed on magnetic media. Kacey Musgraves Welcomes…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1719+ words) Why are some societies ruled by autocrats — powerful people who make all the decisions with barely, if any, checks and balances — while in others, the governed actually have a say? If you ask an archaeologist, historian or political scientist, this…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (531+ words) Potatoes have fed civilizations for thousands of years, but they have done more than that. Scientists have said the crop may have helped shape human biology, giving Indigenous Andean populations a measurable genetic advantage in digesting starch. That finding adds…...