Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection ~humanities.history Article 820 words 8 votes
Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK ~humanities.history Video 39:41 8 votes
Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed ~humanities.history Article 629 words 19 votes
Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue ~humanities.history Article 660 words 11 votes
In Indonesia, humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it? ~humanities.history Article 12 votes
As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements ~humanities.history Article 826 words 10 votes
Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history. ~humanities.history Video 6:04 15 votes
It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships ~humanities.history Article 1046 words 10 votes
Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept ~humanities.history Article 5829 words, published Nov 18 2021 6 votes
Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs - A new effort will add Indigenous history to historical markers across the state ~humanities.history Article 1374 words, published Oct 26 2021 4 votes
Disney brought its streaming service to Iceland last year – the country's education minister has sent a letter of complaint over the lack of Icelandic dubbing and subtitling ~humanities.languages Article 1085 words 5 votes
Preserving Egypt’s layered history reveals 'stories of the restoration of diverse locations around Egypt' ~humanities.history Article 422 words 5 votes
How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century ~humanities.languages Article 547 words, published Dec 22 2020 10 votes
Archaeologists discover paintings of goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy's coffin ~humanities.history Article 553 words 8 votes
Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction ~humanities.languages Article 12 votes
Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool ~humanities.languages Article 1133 words, published Jun 13 2019 12 votes
Guam starts new effort to save dying CHamoru language ~humanities.languages Article 946 words 7 votes