300,000 years of us. We can explain about 5,000.

Ruins & Relics is a field guide to the biggest mystery there is: our own deep past. Lost humans, drowned coastlines, cave art, and every question science hasn't cracked yet. Wonder first, evidence always.

Excavated stone enclosures and T-shaped pillars at Göbekli Tepe in Türkiye.
The human story in six chapters

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THE HUMAN TIMELINE — Six chapters, 3.3 million years, one page. Get the whole sweep, then dive in wherever pulls you.THE MISSING CHAPTERS — The questions the timeline can't answer yet: Denisovan encounters, lost coastlines, the first art. A living index, growing with every investigation.DEEP DIVES — Longer reads on the big ones: Göbekli Tepe before farming, the world beneath the sea, how symbolic thought began. Evidence first, open questions last.