Gold engraving of an ornate vaulted subway station crowded with tents, shacks, mushroom beds and pig pens, with a sandbagged barricade guarding the tunnel at the far end.
Anthropology

The Stations That Became Nations

EXCAVATION Nº 0031 · ANTHROPOLOGY World: The Moscow Metro, MetroPeriod: 2013 onward…

Gold engraving of an untouched coastal marsh with pines, dunes and a lone lighthouse, where plants grow in strange spirals and rings and an abandoned notebook lies by an overgrown path.
Ecologies

The Wilderness That Rewrote Its Visitors

EXCAVATION Nº 0030 · ECOLOGIES World: Area X, Southern ReachPeriod: Some thirty…

Gold engraving of a dense gothic city of spires around a great cathedral under an enormous full moon, with a vial of dark liquid and a curved blade on a bridge parapet in the foreground.
Religions

The Church That Healed Its City With the Blood of Gods

EXCAVATION Nº 0029 · RELIGIONS World: Yharnam, BloodbornePeriod: The night of the…

Gold engraving of an empty gothic city inside a vast cavern under endless falling rain, with a crowned pale statue on a fountain at its center.
Extinct Worlds

The Kingdom That Tried to Forget Its God

EXCAVATION Nº 0028 · EXTINCT WORLDS World: Hallownest, Hollow KnightPeriod: The age…

Gold engraving of a small snowbound city built in rings around a giant iron furnace at the center of a frozen crater, with figures hauling sledges along paths that radiate outward.
Anthropology

The City That Lived Around a Single Fire

EXCAVATION Nº 0027 · ANTHROPOLOGY World: New London, FrostpunkPeriod: 1886 onward (in-world)Status:…

Gold engraving of a vast night city seen from a rooftop, its right side dissolving into falling streams of abstract symbols and bare grids, with an abandoned phone booth and dangling receiver in the foreground.
Extinct Worlds

The Civilization That Died Twice

EXCAVATION Nº 0026 · EXTINCT WORLDS World: Mega City, The Matrix OnlinePeriod:…

Gold engraving of tribespeople kneeling with offerings before an immense circular metal door at the foot of a forested mountain, with overgrown ruins of the old world and a giant machine wreck on the slope.
Religions

The Tribe That Worshipped a Machine’s Door

EXCAVATION Nº 0025 · RELIGIONS World: The Sacred Lands, HorizonPeriod: 31st century…

Gold engraving of a decaying harbor district at dawn, with bullet-scarred walls, idle cranes and dockworkers, an old sea fortress in the bay, bank towers across the water and an airship overhead.
Anthropology

The City That Lost the War and Kept Its Politics

EXCAVATION Nº 0024 · ANTHROPOLOGY World: Revachol, Disco ElysiumPeriod: Spring '51 (in-world)Status:…

Gold engraving of a giant fungal forest raining spores above ground, cut away to reveal a hidden cavern below where petrified trees stand in clean sand above a still pool.
Ecologies

The Toxic Jungle That Was Healing the World

EXCAVATION Nº 0023 · ECOLOGIES World: The Sea of Corruption, Nausicaä of…

Gold engraving of seven weathered, ageless survivors in worn mid-century clothing posing for a formal group portrait before a ruined city, with no children among them.
Anthropology

The People Who Outlived the Bomb

EXCAVATION Nº 0022 · ANTHROPOLOGY World: The Wasteland, FalloutPeriod: 2077 to 2296…