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A 5,000-Year-Old Dolmen Reenters History: Medieval Islamic Burials Transform the Meaning of Menga
For most of its modern history, the Menga Dolmen has been treated as a closed chapter of European prehistory—a monumental relic frozen in the Neolithic past. New research now shows that this assumption is fundamentally wrong. Far from being abandoned after antiquity, Menga was intentionally reclaimed as a sacred space during the Islamic Middle Ages,…
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The Oldest Story Painted in the Americas? Rock Art in Texas and Mexico Carried a Single Message for 4,000 Years
Deep inside the limestone canyons that cut across the borderlands of Texas and northern Mexico, ancient murals stretch across cliff walls in sweeping tapestries of color. For decades, archaeologists knew they were old—what they did not know was how old, or how far their cultural influence may have travelled. A new study in Science Advances…