What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human histo...

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than...

This is a new translation of Wincklemann's controversial writings on the early study of Herculaneum & Pompeii. This new translation brings to light the early days of scientific archaeology and the unearthing and study of Herculaneum and Pompeii as ob...