Profs & Pints DC: The Search for Human Origins
• April 22, 2025

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Search for Human Origins,” on the quest for fossil remains of a missing link, with Noel Boaz, paleoanthropologist, founder of International Institute for Human […]

Profs & Pints DC: The Archaeology of Ireland
• February 19, 2025

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Archaeology of Ireland,” a look at what major sites reveal about the island from prehistory to the present, with Victoria McAlister, assistant professor of […]

‘Beyond King Tut’ at National Geographic  
• October 12, 2022

The world’s largest archaeological museum is due to open next month a mile from the Egyptian Pyramids — possibly on Nov. 4, the day in 1922 that a 12-year-old water […]

Mapping Georgetown: Digging This Community
• May 16, 2022

“I was born at Georgetown University,” wrote Christine Ames, in her Mapping Georgetown tale. “Story update,” she told us, “I’m now an archeologist, helping preserve D.C.’s history! Few of our […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return’  
• March 9, 2022

A British expat reclaims her roots.   Upon his death in 1938, Thomas Wolfe bequeathed to America’s literary canon a 1,100-page manuscript which, published posthumously, trumpeted a universal truth: “You can’t […]