Articles
A Feud Between Biblical Archaeologists Goes to Court
After being stung by criticism (and the cancellation of a lucrative TV deal), one expert sues another for libel. What would Jesus say?
Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble
"Correction Appended: Feb. 8, 2010" The Jerusalem syndrome is a psychological disorder in which a visit to the holy city triggers delusional and obsessive...
Olympics | Archaeology Going to the Temple of Love
The clincher was a small anchor cut from stone. Digging at the site of the Olympic equestrian center, about 30 km southeast of Athens, archaeologist Michalis...
Archaeology: Spiritual Retreat
There was no doubt in Hiram Bingham's mind that he had stumbled onto something mystical in the summer of 1911, when he discovered the dazzling Incan settlement...
Long-Lost City: Archaeology: Finding Ancient Egypt's Gateway
We have an intact city, frozen in time." With those dramatic words, French underwater explorer Franck Goddio announced the discovery of Herakleion, the long-lost...
Archaeology: City Of Mummies
It's not hard to be superstitious when you spend your life excavating Egyptian tombs. But even Zahi Hawass, one of Egypt's leading archaeologists, was not...
Archaeology: New Ways to The New World
It is the Americas' epic immigration saga, long taught in schools and enshrined in popular books. At the end of the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago, brave...
Archaeology: Probing a Sea Puzzle
Looking like a submerged locomotive, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley poked stealthily toward the Union ships blockading Charleston harbor on the night of...
Archaeology: Glories Of Egypt
Blame it on the pyramids. Those astonishing works of architecture--and vanity--are so overwhelming that scholars have taken a while to turn to the lesser...
Archaeology: Pharaohs Of The Sun
It was a brief, shining moment in Egypt's history--a time of epochal change presided over by a Pharaoh named Akhenaten and his beautiful wife Nefertiti. During...
