FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 3 - The Untold Story

Feds arrest man at Detroit airport after threats targeting Wisconsin university

DETROIT — Federal agents arrested a former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student at Detroit Metropolitan Airport who flew to America from Copenhagen on Friday after threatening students, faculty and staff members at his alma mater and vowing to hide the flesh of their children in hamburger meat, according to federal…

Tribune News Service · Mar 13, 2023

Ancient bodies found in Mexico City show shared Catholic, pre-Hispanic graves

The remains of 28 human bodies buried at least four hundred years ago in Mexico indicate the comingling of pre-Hispanic and Catholic cultures that Spanish colonizers introduced, local researchers told Reuters.

Reuters · Feb 21, 2023

At Mexico's Chichen Itza site, researchers discover ancient 'elite' residences

Archaeologists have revealed a group of structures discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, believed to have been part of a housing complex inhabited by the elite of the sacred city founded in the 5th Century AD.

Reuters · Feb 11, 2023

Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo's ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2022

King Abdulaziz in the Narratives of Orientalists, Visitors

Ismail bin Muhammad al-Salamat, a history, sociology, and anthropology researcher, has monitored the sayings and writings of several European orientalists, historians and visitors - Arabs and Muslims - who met the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman, or worked with him. According to Salamat, who also researches…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 23, 2022

Mexican government says train poses no threat to skeleton

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History says a prehistoric human skeleton found recently in a flooded cave system along the country’s Caribbean coast was actually discovered and registered by the institute in 2019 and will not be threatened by a nearby tourist train project

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2022

In Search of Us by Lucy Moore review – the first anthropologists, warts and all

The eccentric adventures, academic insights and many prejudices of 12 pioneering scholars

The Guardian - UK · Jul 1, 2022

Four Aztec child burials sites discovered in Mexico

In the heart of Mexico City's bustling historic center, Mexican archaeologists have discovered the burial site of four Aztec children laid to rest some five centuries ago.

Reuters · Jun 29, 2022

Harvard accused of holding human remains of thousands of Native Americans despite order for return

Panel had been conducting review of anthropology museum’s collection

The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2022

Editorial: Bad news, Tallahassee: Florida students are already awake

History. Sociology. Geography. Civics. Political Science. Economics. Anthropology. These disciplines — often grouped together under the heading of “social studies” — were developed to foster a deeper understanding of the world we all inhabit. The best educators work hard to take their students outside of boundaries on a map, lists…

Orlando Sentinel · May 26, 2022