explore Our place on this planet: our deep past, links to the present, and a more sustainable future.
Humanity & History
Humanity has taken many forms. Explore our evolution, movements across Earth and how humanity changed the world. Health, diet and disease discovered through bones, stones and genes. And the anthropology of culture, hunting, farming and art.
The past is more than just ruins. Archaeology, zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology through time. The material record tells us where innovation began and how humans shaped their landscape.
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley
What does the Sphinx think?
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Archaeology
What has been and past? What has been rediscovered? How do we explore the past? Explore Ancient History here.
Anthropology
Humanity has taken many forms. Explore our evolution, movements across Earth and how humanity changed the world. Health, diet and disease discovered through bones, stones and genes. And the anthropology of culture, hunting, farming and art. Discover what makes us human.
Evolution
All life on Earth came from somewhere, but where? How did we go from Primates to Hominins? Discover the life that has walked, swam and flown on this Earth before and with us.
Environment
The past has seen extremes. It shaped our evolution, our diet, our culture and civilisations. How will it impact us today? Explore our Earth.