Archaeology is fun. It’s so much fun that sometimes people do not treat it with the seriousness it deserves. Studying the past, through what people leave behind, can offer insights into some of the ...
Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an archaeologist, go to graduate ...
From the moment Indiana Jones swiped a golden idol and was chased by a boulder in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" more than 40 years ago, the legendary adventurer has become a lightning rod for ...
Last fall the discovery of a 2,700-year-old toilet made headlines around the world. Its significance had less to do with long-ago plumbing than with the site of its discovery: Jerusalem. No place on ...
For most people, the image that comes to mind at the mention of archaeology is ancient tombs or dinosaur fossils, not cutting ...
Pope Leo XIV on Dec. 11 published a new apostolic letter in which he praised Christian archaeology as a work capable of ...
What’s the first thing you notice when you step into a museum? Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what they see?
Christian archaeology does not simply look at the past, he wrote, but it also speaks to all people in the present day.
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...
World War I was the planet’s first global industrialized conflict, and the use of new technologies like planes, armored tanks, machine guns, grenades, and poison gas resulted in unprecedented ...
Last night I met up with the writers from Our Stories Make Waves to get to know everybody better and to discuss our initial ideas about the project. It was a great meeting which has provoked several ...