The archaeological and historical record provides opportunity for the exploration of numerous aspects of childhood – an ancient, ceramic baby bottle, a child-size weapon, tiny fossilized footprints, child ‘doodles’ in medieval manuscripts, nursery rhymes, and mythological tales – they all have stories to tell about the children of our past.

Easter Island’s history paints an ominous picture of conflicting cults, cannibalism, and links to distant cultures.

After two decades of neglect, underwater archaeologists will soon explore a 200-year-old British shipwreck in the “Nightmare reef” off the coast of Mexico.