In a SAPIENS contest-winning poem by a Kashmiri anthropologist, the threats posed by crossing the Line of Control, a highly militarized de facto border, are faced down by a lover of freedom.

To counter ignorance and indifference about the Holocaust, scientists expand evidence of the mass murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies.

Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past.

Trump’s threats to Iran’s cultural treasures are the latest in a long history of such tactics. Thousands of artistic and architectural marvels have been destroyed in wars—a travesty that must be stopped.

From campaign “war rooms” to “battleground states,” the political lexicon in the U.S. distorts people’s experiences of others and of communal life.

Macabre artifacts hint at regional conflicts around the time of the Maya civilization’s disintegration.

In a discussion with Reinhard Bernbeck, he delves into the origins and ethics of conducting archaeological investigations of the Nazi period.

A community’s memories are shaping its resistance to the Japanese government’s plan to build a new defensive missile system.

Decades after the violence of the Yugoslav wars, veterans are starting to heal and find reconciliation.

The U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has had surprising effects on Afghan-American communities, especially in enclaves like Fremont, California.