Ancient Beer Is Craft’s New Frontier
Scientists are partnering with brewers to taste test ancient recipes and sip a long-lost past.
Sara Toth Stub
Sara Toth Stub is a writer living in Jerusalem and writing mainly about religion, travel, and archaeology. She has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, US News & World Report, Archaeology magazine, National Public Radio, and other media outlets. From 2006 to 2015, she wrote about Israel’s economy for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
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Venice’s Black Death and the Dawn of Quarantine
Archaeological research is unearthing Venice’s quarantine history to illuminate how the Italian city created a vast public health response 700 years ago and helped lay the modern foundation for coping with pandemics.
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Will Asia Rewrite Human History?
Politics, geography, and tradition have long focused archaeological attention on the evolution of Homo sapiens in Europe and Africa. Now, new research is challenging old ideas by showing that early human migrations unfolded across Asia far earlier than previously known.
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How Babywearing Went Mainstream
Strapping a baby to one’s torso used to be taboo in the West. Now the practice has given rise to a community that stretches around the globe.
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How Tourism Reinvented Jesus’ Baptism Site
Pilgrims and tourists are flocking to a baptismal site in the Holy Land in search of religious experience—and souvenirs.