The Gjellestad ship burial rewrites our understanding of Viking funeral rites and the chaotic dawn of the Norse age.
Archaeology is not merely the study of the dead; it is the resurrection of lost lives. In this issue, we turn our gaze to the West—from the frozen fjords of Norway to the dense jungles of Guatemala. New technologies like LiDAR and DNA sequencing are stripping away the layers of time, revealing a world more interconnected, violent, and sophisticated than we ever dared to imagine.
Dr. Elias Thorne
Editor-in-Chief
Beneath the canopy of the Petén rainforest, LiDAR technology has exposed a sprawling network of 60,000 ancient structures. The Maya civilization was not a collection of isolated city-states, but a megalopolis aimed at total war.
Full Report
For centuries, it was a rumor mentioned only in passing by ancient historians. Now, beneath the courtyard of the Palazzo della Rovere, archaeologists have struck marble: the legendary Theatre of Nero, where the emperor rehearsed his poetry while Rome burned.
Full ReportA curated chronicle of the most significant Western finds (2014-2023).
300,000-year-old footprints offering a snapshot of a family day in the paleolithic lake shore.
A coin dismissed as a fake for 300 years is proven authentic, resurrecting a "fake" Roman Emperor.
Human footprints preserved in gypsum, pushing American settlement back to 23,000 years ago.
"Britain's Pompeii" - A Bronze Age village frozen in time by a sudden fire.