One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

To write his latest book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean joined a group of experimental archaeologists who learn by doing. These researchers aim to recreate the sites, sounds, smells and tastes of lost ...

A powerful new historical novel rooted in Southwest Florida’s earliest history has arrived. Apocalypse of the Calusa, written ...

Explore the topics history sometimes forgets: the tastes, textures, sounds, and smells that were an important part of our ancestor’s lives. This October, the SciFri Book Club will read Dinner with ...

Explorations of a submerged passage in the Tlayococ cave in Mexico led to an undiscovered room. Within the room, cave explorers discovered bracelets sitting atop stalagmites and other artifacts from a ...

Ancient Myths That Archaeologists Want You to Forget: 25 Unbelievable Facts About Ancient Civilizations: The ancient world ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

Timeline of world civilizations -- Across oceans before Columbus. Prologue: Life at sea ; A land bridge too far ; Along the Silk Road ; Plants between continents ; European seafaring, 100,000 B.C. ; ...