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Out of Eden Walk: Korea’s Stone Age

Out of Eden Walk

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells Host Carolyn Beeler about Suyanggae, South Korea, an archaeological zone with rare and precious relics of the peoples who first arrived there up to 46,000 years ago. He observes that the Stone Age represents about 99% of human history, and most of that unrecorded human experience remains unknown.

Above Picardy

Arts, Culture & Media
A Salvadoran father carries his son tries as he tries to board a train with another immigrant and head to the Mexican-U.S. border, in Huehuetoca, near Mexico City.

MacArthur grant winner studies the things left behind at the US-Mexico border

Arts
Triquet Island

From oral history, a 14,000-year-old archaeological discovery

Culture
Jews digging a trench in Ponar forest, in which they were later buried, after being shot

Science confirms the incredible story of Lithuania’s Holocaust escape tunnel

Culture
An archbishop's mitre rests on its owner's ancient lead coffin in a forgotten tomb in London

Secret crypt in London: Beware of exploding bishops

Culture

A forgotten crypt has been uncovered in London with the remains of at least five archbishops of Canterbury from several centuries ago.

Ötzi the Iceman at the finding place.

Researchers may have cracked the case of how Ötzi the Iceman died

Medicine

Ötzi, the 5,300-year-old iceman, was murdered. Archaeologists turned to a modern day Sherlock Holmes to figure out the circumstances surrounding the crime.

Proto-Sinaitic script

There’s an intriguing theory that illiterate miners invented the alphabet

Books

Who invented the alphabet? Here’s a maverick theory.

Dino brain

That’s not a pebble. It’s a fossilized dinosaur brain.

Science

Back in 2004 Jamie Hiscocks was taking a walk on the beach in the south of England when he spotted a small brown pebble — just a few inches across. About 130 million years before, it had been a brain. A dinosaur brain.

Archaeologists have discovered ancient spells buried in the graves of the city of Viminacium.

Behold the forgotten spells from the tombs of ancient Serbia!

Culture

More than 1,500 years ago, at the height of the Roman Empire, a young woman died. Someone close to her thought she might need some help in the next life. Help from a demon.More than 1,500 years ago, at the height of the Roman Empire, a young woman died. Someone close to her thought she might need some help in the next life. Help from a demon.