The "backward-looking curiosity" -- Donkeys and pharaohs -- Reading ancient Egypt -- Digging into Nineveh -- Tablets and tunnelling -- The Maya revealed -- Axes and elephants -- A huge turning point - ...

Top image: A photo of one of the child burials at the Samnite necropolis in Pontecagnano Faiano, Italy. The skeleton is in a pit grave, with a large bronze belt placed over its waist. Source: ...

Today, the scarab remains a focus of popular devotion through a tourist tradition: people circle it - often seven times - seeking luck, love, or a wish fulfilled, echoing (in a modern, secular form) ...

Introduction : The crisscrossed past -- The beginnings of archaeology in Peru -- The foundation (Western) of Peruvian archaeology : Max Uhle and cultural evolutionism -- Archaeology and nationalism in ...