Dig is an educational magazine about archaeology oriented toward children ages 8 to 14. Its sister publication, Calliope, focuses on world history. Both are published nine times a year.

All Roads — and Seas — Lead to Rome. Calliope, January 2012.
From across the Mediterranean, food was shipped by land and sea to ancient Rome.

Panic in Glasgow. Dig, October 2011.
“Ach, thur’s nae vampires here, mister.” A brief history of the 1954 Gorbals vampire scare.

30 Events That Changed the World. Calliope, May/June 2011.
Among the 30: Oil discovered in Pennsylvania; the invention of microchips and the world wide web; man walks on the moon.

The First Blue Jeans. Calliope, September 2010.
The history of how European serge de Nimes became an ubiquitous American fashion.

What’s Right? What’s Wrong? Dig, July/August 2010.
Dilophosaurus didn’t spit venom, brachiosaurus didn’t stand on its hind legs, and velociraptors didn’t hunt in packs: the differences between reality and the Jurassic Park films and books.

Find Livingstone! Calliope, May/June 2010.
The story of explorer and journalist Henry Stanley, the man assigned to locate Dr. David Livingstone.

Shipwreck Zeewijk. Calliope, April 2010.
The Zeewijk was just one of many ships the Dutch East India Company lost off the western coast of Australia in their quest for spices.

A Healing Center. Dig, October 2009.
Based on burials, archaeological evidence, and folk tradition, one archaeologist theorizes that Stonehenge was a healing site for Neolithic pilgrims.

Nazca Lines. Dig, May/June 2009.
Are the drawings carved into the Peruvian pampas art or ritual pathways between sacred spaces? Hundreds of years later, we still don’t know.

Consequences of Faking History. Dig, February 2009.
The life and times of Shinichi Fujimura, Japanese archaeological hoaxer.

The Great Mammoth. Dig, November/December 2008.
A brief history of mammoths, from the dwarfs of California’s Channel Islands to the woollys and Columbians of the North American mainland.

The Last Deer. Dig, November/December 2008.
The Irish elk — Megaloceros giganteus — was neither exclusively Irish nor an elk. Discuss.

A Gladiators’ Graveyard. Dig, October 2008.
Archaeologists have determined that many of the gladiators buried in a Turkish cemetery died from wounds received in the arena.

Pirates Vs. Privateers. Dig, July/August 2008.
What did the Continental Congress do when pitted against the greatest navy in the world? They hired freelancers.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Archaeology. Dig, May/June 2008.
A tally of the real-life archaeological methods Indiana Jones gets right and those he gets wrong.

Pay With Oil. Dig, February 2008.
Leptis Magna, on the Libyan coast, paid Rome three million pounds of olive oil in annual tribute.

Onsite Underwater, coauthored with Christopher Amer. Dig, October 2007.
From combing through archives to pulling on a wetsuit, here’s what it takes to locate a shipwreck.

Twenty-First Century Olympics. Calliope, October 2007.
Whatever happened to tug-of-war and other not-so-popular Olympic events?

Hard Times, coauthored with Erik Trinkaus. Dig, September 2007.
It wasn’t easy being a Neandertal: Every adult skeleton ever recovered has at least one broken bone or head injury.

The Great-Granddaddy of Guinea Pigs. Dig, July/August 2007.
Eight-million years ago, the swamps of Venezuela abounded with 1,500-lb. guinea pigs.

Spirits of the Dogon. Dig, May/June 2007.
Using masks and rituals, the Dogon of Mali sustain relationships with their ancestors.

Mysteries of Cahokia. Dig, April 2007.
Situated at the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers, the city of Cahokia was a major trade center before its decline in the 14th century.

All About Chocolate. Dig, January 2007.
In ancient Mesoamerica, cacao beans weren’t just delicacies — they were currency.

Leif’s Canadian Camp. Dig, November/December 2006.
L’Anse aux Meadows was not a colonization attempt but rather a base from which vikings could explore — and extract resources from — North America.

According to Xenophon. Calliope, November 2006.
Surrounded on all sides, Xenophon and the Ten Thousand fought their way home.

Seven Modern Wonders of the World. Calliope, September 2006.
Calliope picks the most amazing wonders on the planet, all built after 1800.

A Tomb’s Secrets. Dig, May/June 2006.
A Bulgarian burial reveals the treasures of a warrior who may have died fighting for Thrace.

Like Father, Like Son. Dig, February 2006.
An 8-year-old spends his summers digging in Crete with his archaeologist dad.

Ice-Age Lamps. Dig, February 2006.
Pleistocene artists fashioned lamps to see inside the caves they painted.

A New Route to the Spice Islands. Calliope, February 2006.
The Age of Exploration was spurred by spices.

Sri Lanka’s Cinnamon. Calliope, February 2006.
For hundreds of years, the lust for cinnamon brought war and conquest to Sri Lanka.

Machu Picchu’s Friend. Dig, November/December 2005.
An interview with Lucy Salazar, co-curator and manager of Yale’s Machu Picchu Exhibit.

Keeping Clean. Calliope, November 2005.
Roman engineers gave the world indoor heating, hot baths, and running toilets.

Head Over Hooves. Dig, July/August 2005.
The sport of bull leaping in Minoan Crete was death-defying.

What’s in a Ball? Dig, July/August 2005.
A brief history of those things we kick, catch, and throw.

A Man With a Purpose. Dig, May/June 2005.
Hadrian’s Wall was almost single-handedly preserved by antiquarian John Clayton.

Linking the Great North Road. Dig, May/June 2005.
Excavators rebuild a Roman bridge over the river Tyne.

No Place Like Home. Dig, April 2005.
The modern descendants of an area’s first settlers have been surviving in situ for a long time.

Direct From Iraq. Dig, February 2005.
An interview with McGuire Gibson, professor of archaeology at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, about the looting of the national museum in Baghdad.

The Spoils of War. Dig, February 2005.
Repatriating stolen cultural property is often a complicated process.

Rising From the Ashes. Dig, February 2005.
Afghanistan rebuilds its national museum.

Why Tools Survive. Dig, January 2005.
The environment surrounding an artifact is as important to its preservation as the object itself.

The Prize — Egypt. Calliope, November 2004.
To the Romans, the land of the Nile was a breadbasket worth fighting for.

Excavating Hunley, coauthored with Christopher Amer. Dig, October 2004.
The submarine H.L. Hunley remains on the cutting edge of science, just as it was in 1864.

The Stone Circles of Orkney. Dig, September 2004.
Ruins found between two of Orkney’s famous henges may be the remains of a Neolithic settlement.

Were Teeth Tools? Dig, November/December 2003.
A Chinese cave may hold evidence that Paleolithic humans used and shaped teeth just like stones.