Rocks, life, tools and records. Follow different kinds of evidence from a forming planet to everyday life.
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A planet’s age, a mineral’s age and evidence for water are different records. Follow Solar System materials, the Moon’s origin and tiny zircons to investigate how a watery planet took shape.
Rock patterns, dividing membranes, shared ancestry and rising oxygen tell different stories. Learn to read their evidence while exploring life’s unresolved origins and the world transformed by microbes.
Visit Cambrian seas, expanding life on land and two mass extinctions. Comparing the recoveries reveals a history of changing bodies, environments and relationships, with no single path toward a superior organism.
Footprints, bones, tools and DNA reveal different parts of our past. Combine them, and a single procession becomes a history of branching lineages, movement and encounters.
Bread before farming, seeds that stay attached and settled hunter-gatherers: different clues untangle changes in cultivation and everyday life.
Grain accounts, royal names, unread seals and knotted cords reveal different ways of organizing life together.
From ceramics in a shipwreck to printing, ocean crossings, cotton mills and planetary carbon: follow what moved and the people whose work made it possible.