Archaeology

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

Wander among the ghostly ruins of an island where civilization flourished for thousands of years.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Archaeologists are still unraveling the secrets of the brutal massacre that wiped out this ancient fort.

See replicas of Europe's most famous cave paintings and even some of the animals that feature in the art.

The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.

The second-largest collection of runic calendar staffs in Sweden.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.