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In ''Sins of the Shovel,'' Rachel Morgan describes the dark, chaotic early days of American archaeology. SINS OF THE SHOVEL: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology, by Rachel [...]

Juan Carlos I of Spain was once the model of a modern European constitutional monarch. Then came the fall. A tale of fathers, sons, mistresses, and money. The Royal Club [...]

SACRED ART NATIONAL IDENTITY I set out for Ukraine on a cold, clear morning in March, four weeks after the Russian invasion. A taxi whisked me 150 miles east from [...]

IT WASN'T JUST A LEGEND. ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE CITY CELEBRATED BY HOMER NEARLY 3,000 YEARS AGO THE LAST STRETCH OF MY JOURNEY began in a [...]

Art theft and fraud are on the rise worldwide, and Germany is the red-hot center of it all. Masterpieces are missing! Meet the man on the case. Rene Allonge, director [...]

This article discusses the devastating fire that occurred at Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019 and the subsequent efforts to restore the iconic landmark. The fire destroyed the cathedral's roof frame, known as the charpente, which was a unique and intricate all-wood structure. French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to rebuild Notre-Dame within five years, and significant funds were donated for the restoration. The chief architect of France's national monuments, Philippe Villeneuve, and architect Rémi Fromont, who had previously studied the charpente, were involved in the restoration project. Traditional carpentry techniques, including the use of hand tools, were employed to recreate the charpente. The article highlights the cultural significance of Notre-Dame and the emotional impact of the fire on the French people. [Extracted from the article]

ON A SULTRY morning in September 2020, a team of Turkish officials showed up unannounced at the British Institute at Ankara, tucked on two floors of a five-story office building [...]

In ''Empress of the Nile,'' Lynne Olson tells the story of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the archaeologist who broke into a notoriously misogynistic men's club: Egyptology. EMPRESS OF THE NILE: The Daredevil [...]

In ''Masters of the Lost Land,'' Heriberto Araujo investigates a region where land and people are routinely sacrificed to greed and corruption. MASTERS OF THE LOST LAND: The Untold Story [...]

When Columba Stewart, a 63-year-old Benedictine monk based in Minnesota, arrived at the Kaiser Library, a government-affiliated archive in Kathmandu, Nepal, he stared up at the three-story building--wobbly, riven by [...]

Their relentless migration covers thousands of miles. But new threats are jeopardizing this ancient wonder of nature ONE OF NATURE'S MOST EXTRAORDINARY SPECTACLES unfolds in the 10,000foot-high conifer forests of [...]

SHE'S THE 'AVENGING ANGEL,' the 'ministering angel,' the 'lady with the lamp'--the brave woman whose name would become synonymous with selflessness and compassion. Yet as Britain prepares to celebrate Florence [...]

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai rules one of the world's richest city-states--and prides himself on being progressive. So why do women from his family keep fleeing? The [...]

THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF MRAUKU WELCOMED BUDDHISTS AND MUSLIMS. NOW EFFORTS TO UNCOVER ITS MYSTERIES ARE THREATENED BY ETHNIC HOSTILITIES IN SEMI-DARKNESS, I MAKE MY WAY down a tunnel-like corridor, [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . The Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids, near the medieval town Visoko, [...]

THE KING'S SHADOWObsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of AlexandriaBy Edmund Richardson Rudyard Kipling's novel ''Kim'' popularized the term the ''Great Game'' to describe the 19th-century [...]

Byline: BY JOSHUA HAMMER ANGELS OF THE AVALANCHE AGE NOW MORE THAN EVER, SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS ARE VENTURING FURTHER IN THE BACKCOUNTRY-AT A MOMENT WHEN CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING MOUNTAIN [...]

THE WRITING OF THE GODSThe Race to Decode the Rosetta StoneBy Edward Dolnick On a steamy day in July 1799, a member of a French military work detail at a [...]

THE CURSE OF THE MUMMYUncovering Tutankhamun's TombBy Candace Fleming KING TUTANKHAMUN TELLS ALL!Written by Chris NauntonIllustrated by Guilherme Karsten What is it about Tutankhamun that inspires such fascination? Believed to [...]

Mohamed Fadei led me in the 110-degree heat through the Ishtar Gate, a soaring blue replica of the original made of blue enamel-glazed bricks and covered with bas-reliefs depicting dragons [...]

To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . Early in the evening of Aug. 27, 2020, Paul Rusesabagina stepped [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer PHOTOGRAPH BY SEBASTI�O SALGADO The Hunt for One of the World's Most Wanted Men HE WAS ONE OF AFRICA'S RICHEST MOGULS AND HELPED UNLEASH THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE [...]

On a drizzly morning in mid-March, Layla Salih and I sat in the back of a mud-splattered Toyota Land Cruiser, bound for Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital near Mosul in [...]

Fleeing violence in Iraq, two close friends embarked on an epic journey across Europe--and ended up worlds apart. Smithsonian documents the complex drama of Europe's refugee crisis Sing to me [...]

THE TOWN OF HAPARANDA. 700 MILES NORTH OF STOCKHOLM. is a lonely smudge of civilization in the vast tundra of Swedish Lapland. It was once a thriving outpost for trade [...]

VESPER FLIGHTSBy Helen Macdonald At the height of World War II, the ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley, brother of the dystopian novelist Aldous Huxley, rallied his countrymen on the [...]

Byline: BY JOSHUA HAMMER THE ERUPTION OF INSTAGRAM ISLAND NEW ZEALAND'S WHITE ISLAND IS OTHERWORLDLY, AN 800-ACRE FANTASYLAND THAT HAS BECKONED HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKERS AND EVERYDAY SELFIE-SEEKERS ALIKE. IT IS ALSO [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer Chaos at the Top of the World It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde of climbers clogged atop Mount Everest. [...]

The port of Ouesso, in the Republic of Congo, sprawls along the east bank of the Sangha River, a wide, murky stream that winds through the heart of Africa. One [...]

Deep in the jungles of Cambodia, archaeologists are uncovering a vast and SOPHISTICATED METROPOLIS that is 350 years older than Ankgor Wat Jean-Baptiste Che vanee senses that were closing in [...]

Early in the afternoon of May 7, Maria Ressa sat before a couple of hundred people in the lobby of Palma Hall, the dilapidated social-sciences and philosophy building at the [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer Illustrations by Kelsey Niziolek HUNTING THE RHINO-HORN CARTEL From an outpost in northeastern Thailand, a couple of shadowy men have for years been running the world's most [...]

Shortly before six o'clock in the morning on August 30, 2014, Margee Ensign, president of the American University of Nigeria, met with her security chief in the large house that [...]

On a sweltering summer afternoon, Antonio Irlando leads me down the Via dell'Abbondanza, the main thoroughfare in first-century Pompeii. The architect and conservation activist gingerly makes his way over huge, [...]

As I descend a footpath through subterranean gloom, limestone walls tower 40 feet and plunge into a chasm. Gleaming stalactites dangle from the ceiling. After several twists and turns, I [...]

A century ago at Gallipoll, the Allies launched one of the bloodiest battles of the Great War--which ended eight months later as an epic military disaster. For the Turks, their […]

IN EXTREMIS The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin By Lindsey Hilsum Illustrated. 378 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28. The death of Marie Colvin under fire [...]

IN OCTOBER, AS EBOLA raged out of control and unsettled much of the world, I began making plans for a reporting trip to West Africa. I had covered a minor [...]

He call came in to Gary Roberts last March at his home in Bere, a village of subsistence farmers deep in the sorghum and cotton fields of southern Chad. Reports [...]

THE FEATHER THIEFBeauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the CenturyBy Kirk Wallace JohnsonIllustrated. 308 pp. Viking. $27. In June 2009, Edwin Rist, a 20-year-old American flutist studying at [...]