Archaeology

archaeology

Teotihuacán is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in the Basin of Mexico, roughly 40 kilometers northeast of modern Mexico City. It flourished between approximately 100 BCE a...

history

Ancient Britain refers to the islands now called Great Britain and Ireland from the earliest human arrivals to the start of the Roman province of Britannia and the subsequent em...

culture-and-society

Squid ink artifacts represent a distinctive class of material culture that derives color and character from cephalopod ink, primarily sourced from cuttlefish, squid, and octopus...

history-explainer

Human civilization began when societies developed durable urban settlements, writing, institutional governance, and complex economies, marking a shift from mobile groups to stab...

history-archaeology

The Terracotta Warriors are a collection of life-sized terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor. They were discovered in 1974 near th...

history-archaeology

The phrase mound builders refers to diverse Indigenous cultures in North America that constructed large earthen mounds for ceremonial, burial, platform, and boundary purposes fr...

Landforms & Geology

Mounds in Texas are elevated landforms built by natural processes or by human activity, found across coastal plains, river valleys, and the western reaches of the state. Natural...

Mesoamerican Archaeology

Teotihuacán is neither Aztec nor Maya; it was a distinct ancient city in present‑day central Mexico that flourished long before the Aztec Empire and outside the Maya region....

history-archaeology

The oldest continuously recognized places in Florida are Indigenous settlements established thousands of years ago, alongside early Spanish colonial sites from the 1500s. What q...

archaeology

Excavating Easter Island’s moai begins with careful documentation, surface survey, and minimal intervention to preserve context. Teams map the landscape, record elevation and...