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Ask a school student what an archaeologist does and you will hear, "digs up old things." Ask a graduate where the jobs are and you will hear, "ASI or the civil services." That narrow picture is what ...
Most of us first meet our past at school level textbooks, as dates, dynasties, and monuments. Archaeology is where it becomes something you can hold: a broken pot, a layer of soil, a painting, a scul...
I often wonder when my journey into archaeology actually began. There was no single moment when I decided that this was what I wanted to do. In fact, I don't think I even knew what archaeology actual...
*Anindya Sanyal, 19 September 2026* Say the word 'archaeology' and most people picture someone in a pit, brushing dust off a skull. But really, archaeology is a study of humans: how people learned t...
Archaeology was, to me, as a child, an entirely different matter, and one of digging up things! Brushing and collecting dust with a little trowel, scraping meticulously at the ground, in search of so...
