Investigations & syntheses
Long-form, documented and sourced articles connecting discoveries and telling the great transformations of humankind.
Around 1250 BCE, King Ammistamru II of Ugarit repudiated the daughter of the king of Amurru. On a clay tablet, the Hittite great king Tudhaliya IV personally arbitrated this oldest known royal divorce, turned into a diplomatic crisis between vassals.
Read more →At Cerro de las Cabezas in central Spain, two men killed more than 2,200 years ago were cast against the town wall, uncremated, ringed by six large red deer antlers. The story of a 'bad death' with no parallel in Iron Age Iberia.
Read more →From Hohle Fels to Willendorf, nearly two hundred female figurines span 30,000 years. Fertility symbols, portraits, ritual objects? The mystery endures.
Read more →A circle of [[megalithe|megaliths]] raised nearly 5,000 years ago on Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge keeps surprising us: in 2024 its Altar Stone was traced to Scotland, over 700 kilometres away.
Read more →Monumental sanctuaries raised before agriculture. What if the sacred, more than wheat, settled humankind?
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