Jordan is a living archive—Roman colonnades, Nabataean tombs, and star-studded desert skies. This archaeology-forward guide maps a 7–10 day 2026 route: Petra via the back-door Monastery hike, Jerash, Wadi Rum, the Desert Castles, and an optional Dead Sea finale—plus practical tips on the Jordan Pass, Petra by Night, and respectful site etiquette.

A simple guide to Göbekli Tepe and the wider Taş Tepeler sites—what they are, why they matter, and how to visit respectfully.

World Heritage status isn’t a force field. Learn what UNESCO really means, how sites get listed, and how travelers can protect the places we love.

Turn overlapping phone photos into a shareable, measurable 3D model. This guide covers capture paths, free software (Meshroom/COLMAP), how to set real-world scale, and what to look for on the finished mesh—so evidence jumps off the screen.

Place-names are more than labels—they’re memory. This guide shows how to read toponymy as evidence, from “—chester” and tell/tel to multilingual alternates in GNIS, GeoNames, and OpenStreetMap, and how to fold those clues into your map regression workflow.

Cities rarely disappear—they’re renamed, rerouted, or paved over. This hands-on guide shows how to use historic maps and Google Earth to trace vanished streets, read “lostness” clues, and document your findings..

Behind every pin on your phone is a half-century of map hacks and bold ideas. Learn how early different experiments became today’s go-to tools for archaeology, planning, and everyday navigation.

Nestled along the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, the Spiro Mounds once stood as a thriving heart of Mississippian culture—until human greed turned it into a manufactured ruin.

Cities become “lost” through five patterns: catastrophic burial, environmental shift, economic rerouting, political violence and relocation, and deliberate erasure. Here’s how each works—and how to spot the evidence on site.

What does it mean to call a place “lost”? The Lostness Framework is my way of tracing how disappearance happens, which traces remain, and how modern memory remakes the past.