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A Chalk Horse Cut Into an English Hillside Would Vanish in a Decade Without Maintenance, and It Has Survived Three Thousand Years
Most ancient monuments survive because they are made of something durable. Stone lasts. Metal lasts.
Two Men With a Metal Detector Dug Up the Oldest Known Map of the Night Sky, Damaged It With a Spade and Sold It the Next Day
Archaeology depends on context. An object in the ground is surrounded by information — what
17 Mountain Passes and What Made Each One Worth Crossing
Every pass is a compromise between height and distance: the lowest crossing point is rarely
16 Kinds of Town Square and What Each One Was Built to Do
The useful habit when standing in an unfamiliar square is to look at what faces
A German Rubbish Tip Turned Out to Contain Fossils So Complete You Can See What the Animals Had Eaten for Breakfast
The fossil record is overwhelmingly a record of hard parts. Bones, teeth and shells survive
Inca Walls Are Built From Irregular Stones Fitted So Precisely That a Blade Will Not Enter the Joints, and They Were Assembled Without Mortar
There is a wall in Cusco that tourists queue to photograph because of one stone
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12 Chillies That Are Grown for Flavour Rather Than Heat
The single most useful thing to know is that heat and flavour are independent. A
17 Foods Where the Main Ingredient Is Time
The common feature is that nobody is doing anything for most of the duration. The
15 Things Worth Knowing About Cooking With Dried Pulses
Almost every quirk of cooking with pulses follows from one fact: they are dried on
15 Dishes That Only Work If You Eat Them With a Spoon
The question worth asking about any spoon dish is what would be lost with a
12 Ways of Cooking Over Fire and What Each One Is Doing Differently
Flames are the least useful part of a fire for cooking. Almost everything below is
15 Foods That Exist Because Somebody Had to Eat at Three in the Morning
These dishes are not late-night versions of daytime food. They were developed for people working
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