Finding a Genetic Hybrid
October 8, 2021
Tom Higham— Monday 22 June 2015 at 9:10 am. One of the great moments of my life. I was in one of the laboratories at the Research Lab for Archaeology… READ MORE
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Finding the Bible
February 3, 2020
Brent Nongbri— Late in 1907, it was publicly revealed that the American businessman Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) had acquired a group of four early Christian books from an antiquities dealer… READ MORE
A Huge Turning Point in Archaeology
October 21, 2019
Brian Fagan— The bombshell exploded a few months after John Evans and Joseph Prestwich returned from their visit to the Somme gravel pits with axes and elephant bones. Charles Darwin’s On… READ MORE
The Story of Archaeology
April 10, 2018
Brian Fagan— There really is something to Indiana Jones, except that it’s all wrong. It’s rumored that Jones was an amalgam of several early twentieth century archaeologists, but Lucas Films… READ MORE
Ep. 52 – A Little History of Archaeology
April 5, 2018
Are Indiana Jones and Lara Croft real archaeologists? Brian Fagan takes us through the history of archaeology from the early treasure hunting days to the rigorously scientific present. YaleUniversity ·… READ MORE
The Earliest Humans in North America
May 31, 2016
Thomas S. Kidd— When did the first people come to live in North America? Or, humanly speaking, when did American history begin? These questions deal with really old history, but… READ MORE
A Conversation with Richard Conniff
April 12, 2016
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History turns 150 this year, and to celebrate, we spoke with Richard Conniff, author of House of Lost Worlds, about some of the fascinating… READ MORE
The Monastery at Ranod: Exploring The Remains of Medieval India
June 10, 2014
Today, we are very proud to publish an important new book – Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India, the first full-length study of… READ MORE
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