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Russia Warns Poland Over Arrest of a Researcher Wanted by Ukraine

11 December 2025 at 12:01
Poland detained a Russian archaeologist who works on an ancient site in Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014. Ukraine calls the work illegal.

Β© Kuba Stezycki/Reuters

The detention center where the Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin is held after being detained by Polish authorities, in Warsaw.

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped

9 December 2025 at 03:00
A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

Β© Jonathan Corum/The New York Times

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped

9 December 2025 at 03:00
A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

Β© Jonathan Corum/The New York Times

Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

26 November 2025 at 10:00
Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.

Β© Josh Haner/The New York Times

The Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of Easter Island, were hewed from compacted ash in a quarry inside the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano between A.D. 1200 and 1700.

In Search of the Simpsonville Massacre

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists are still searching for their remains.

Β© Jon Cherry for The New York Times

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