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Above Picardy

Arts, Culture & Media

Picardy, Northern France, has long been famous for a towering gothic cathedral in Amiens, and for the battlefield of the Somme. But in recent years the area has also become known for the traces of history buried beneath its soil. The photographer Roger Agache told Marjorie van Halteren that we sometimes must go up very […]

A Salvadoran father carries his son tries as he tries to board a train with another immigrant and head to the Mexican-U.S. border, in Huehuetoca, near Mexico City.

MacArthur grant winner studies the things left behind at the US-Mexico border

Arts
Triquet Island

From oral history, a 14,000-year-old archaeological discovery

Culture
Jews digging a trench in Ponar forest, in which they were later buried, after being shot

Science confirms the incredible story of Lithuania’s Holocaust escape tunnel

Culture
An archbishop's mitre rests on its owner's ancient lead coffin in a forgotten tomb in London

Secret crypt in London: Beware of exploding bishops

Culture
Ötzi the Iceman at the finding place.

Researchers may have cracked the case of how Ötzi the Iceman died

Medicine

Ötzi, the 5,300-year-old iceman, was murdered. Archaeologists turned to a modern day Sherlock Holmes to figure out the circumstances surrounding the crime.

Proto-Sinaitic script

There’s an intriguing theory that illiterate miners invented the alphabet

Books

Who invented the alphabet? Here’s a maverick theory.

Dino brain

That’s not a pebble. It’s a fossilized dinosaur brain.

Science

Back in 2004 Jamie Hiscocks was taking a walk on the beach in the south of England when he spotted a small brown pebble — just a few inches across. About 130 million years before, it had been a brain. A dinosaur brain.

Archaeologists have discovered ancient spells buried in the graves of the city of Viminacium.

Behold the forgotten spells from the tombs of ancient Serbia!

Culture

More than 1,500 years ago, at the height of the Roman Empire, a young woman died. Someone close to her thought she might need some help in the next life. Help from a demon.More than 1,500 years ago, at the height of the Roman Empire, a young woman died. Someone close to her thought she might need some help in the next life. Help from a demon.

The bodies of thousands of Londoners, including plague victims, lie in the Bedlam Burial Ground.

Uncovering the plague pit beneath London’s streets

Health

For centuries, the bones of London’s Great Plague victims have lain undisturbed at the Bedlam Burial Ground. Now a new construction project is letting archaeologists uncover their world for a few precious months.