Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
Professor David Wengrow is one of the world's leading experts on Egypt before the pharaohs. He's als
Tattoos, and other forms of body decoration, are as old as humanity itself. But what can we know abo
Understanding the first migrants to the Americas more than 13,000 years ago is a big task. So is fig
Language is one of the foundational pieces of being human, but in the absence of writing, what can w
There are still people living now who make their living by foraging, and understanding them is an es
Kings are practically synonymous with ancient Egypt, and it's not just because their monuments - lik
What can we learn about the deep human past by studying present-day hunter-gatherers? I asked that q
More than 5,000 years ago, the city of Uruk in what's now Iraq was the heart of a new civilization.
Pyramids, mummies, and pharaohs define our understanding of ancient Egypt, a timeless and eternal la
Boxing has a long past, one deeply connected to race, labor, and broader developments in American hi
Civilization first emerged in the fertile floodplains of Mesopotamia - present-day Iraq - with pries
I'm not just talking about the wonderful Sid Meier game series, which I've spent far too many hours
Stanford University's Professor Li Liu is one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric East Asi
Agriculture was invented in no fewer than three, and probably four, places in the Americas. It went
The initial migrations to the Americas get most of the attention, but people didn't stop living ther
The relationship between agriculture, migration, and the distribution of today's most prominent lang
Plague, war, and a worsening climate drastically changed Europe in the years and decades after 1350.
East Asia was one of the world's primary centers of agricultural innovation. Farming was invented th
Hominins have lived in East Asia - what's now China, Korea, and Japan - for millions of years, at le
Professor Stephen Shennan is one of the world's leading experts on the early farmers of the Fertile
