Articles by Blair Mastbaum

In Moffat, a volunteer-led effort to switch off artificial lighting has had some unexpected results.

Algerian Jewish Sign Language evolved over centuries in isolation, within a walled city of the Sahara, before turning up in Israel.

Taking stock of the world's oldest soups.

Popularized by Bing Crosby's kitschy pop classic, the phrase doesn't delight everyone. It also makes no sense.

Archaeologists test how our ancestors may have used this (nearly) lost skill to navigate caves and other dark spaces.

The iconic Guy Fawkes mask is everywhere—except where you might expect to find it.

Expressing your identity in a clever string of images was a thing long before emojis.

Thousands of years ago, artists documented their world on rock walls—including, perhaps, ritual use of hallucinogens.

Children and even infants joined adults in making their marks, say archaeologists.

In Southern Spain, a destructive blaze threatened both Genalguacil's people and their beloved public art.

At a site in Spain, archaeologists piece together the last days of Tartessos, an advanced society that vanished 2,500 years ago.