The extensive archaeological resources of the Dominican Republic are fascinating. The entire island has an amazing history dating back 10,000 years. The original Taino people of Hispaniola were decimated by Columbus and replaced by a legendary mix of Spanish, French,…
Infatuated by archaeology since the age of seven, I was lucky enough to grow up in a state chock-full of amazing history and a plethora of archaeological sites. So, I thought I'd share what I think are the top ten archaeological…
The kids and I made a dusk foray down to the petroglyphs in the Rio Grande Gorge for a look at some of the magnificent ancient works lining the walls of the canyon. The figures here are located in the…
Of the six surviving seventeenth-century Franciscan mission churches in the United States, the four in New Mexico are are located within the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. Located in a rather remote section of the central part of the state, the Salinas…
Sometimes it is good to be lost. Van Gogh’s sunflower painting left from France on the mail steamer Binna in late May of 1920. It arrived in Japan on December 12 of that same year. The new owner, Koyata Yamamoto was…
The FULL Travel library is available here You already know we're book hounds here at Around the World in Eighty Years. Heck, the name itself is an ode to the literature of travel. I never go anywhere without a…
I walked the hill to the fort above the Goa Resort and the Russians didn’t like it. “It is too hot. Get on.” Scooter after scooter passed me, stopped, waited for me to reach them then offered me a ride. …
Of course the Portuguese had gotten all out of control. Timayya had done his work well and the Bijapur kings were out of the way. Goa belonged to Portugal and everyone was rich from slaving and spices. Other than to…
Ok. We might indeed be screwed. Or not. Archaelogists at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History have announced that a second reference the end of the world in 2012 exists on a carved fragment. Until now, we've known of…
A tempest in a teapot has erupted over the proposed preservation of some graffiti drawn by members of the band The Sex Pistols in the 1970s that was recently found in a central London flat. That’s right. The drawings, mostly…
The benefits to ending the rule of a twisted and bloody dictator are endless. Often, the science of archaeology is a beneficiary: The fall of Gaddafi has opened the way for archaeologists to explore the country's pre-Islamic heritage, so long…
After all the trouble they've gotten themselves into, The Getty clings desperately to the statute of limitations in a silly attempt to keep part of a stolen sacred Armenian manuscript. The J. Paul Getty Trust failed Thursday to derail a…