Exhuming the Past In a Painful Quest
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NEBAJ, Guatemala -- A decade after the conclusion of the long civil war that ravaged this Central American nation, Guatemalans are literally trying to dig up their past.
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Gordon Rugg cracked the 400-year-old mystery of the Voynich manuscript. Next up: everything from Alzheimer's to the origins of the universe. By Joseph D'Agnese from Wired magazine.
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Call them the monster hunters. From the search for Lon Chaney's lost vampire film to the mystery of Bela Lugosi's missing Frankenstein screen test, a torch-bearing mob of horror historians has spent decades poring through old scripts, musty production notes and even Transylvanian castles in search of the truth behind Hollywood's most famous monsters.
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Events of the day entangled many of us in an emotional lost and found.
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The case isn't closed yet, but modern humans are looking awfully guilty in one of the biggest whodunits in prehistory: the case of the demise of the Neanderthals.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...
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Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.
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For more than half a century,  historian Raul Hilberg has studied the Holocaust, arguably the  most savage episode in human history. He has tried to distance  his personal life from his work but says on occasion, he has  been overtaken by the pathos of his subject.
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Ian Desai was so curious about maps he found in a book that he retraced the ancient voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, one of the most enduring Greek fables.
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  arduous task of putting names to thousands of unidentified  bodies, including those of the many missing foreign tourists.
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A mysterious blue barrel. Divers searching the murky, frigid waters of an industrial canal. A woman's body exhumed for clues three years after her death.
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Recovering 736 missing digital images can be an arduous (and expensive) task.
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Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse â to behold an untrammeled frontier.
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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Youk Chhang, a victim of the Khmer Rouge, is now trying to document how a nation could devour itself with such ferocity.
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Imagine the long centuries of the Stone Age, when life was, by definition, hard and there was not a tipple to be had. People in the Middle East came to find a pleasing remedy in the marvel
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.