History
Recognition
Tribute to Antonieta de Barros
Antonieta de Barros (1901–1952) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)
By Redação
Urban planning
More than just a city of monuments
Freshly discovered documents reveal alternative designs ultimately abandoned in the construction of Brasília and its surrounding towns
By Diego Viana
History
Short stay, long legacy
A book of essays explores the cultural and social impacts of the short-lived French presence in Guanabara Bay
By Diego Viana
Cover
Contested significance
New research sheds light on modernist projects in Brazil's furthest reaches
Video
On its 100th anniversary, Modernism still raises criticism and reflection
Historian Luiz Armando Bagolin, from the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo (IEB-USP), goes through highlights of literature, visual arts and thought by the Modernist movement champions
By Redação
Demographics
Discoveries about the past
Early demographic data show that 20% of households were headed by women in colonial Brazil
History
From Tupi to Portuguese
Six letters written in ancient Tupi by indigenous peoples during the Brazilian colonial period have finally been transcribed and translated into Portuguese
By Redação
Archaeology
The enigmatic dragon man
An almost complete skull fossil that was hidden for 85 years may belong to a new species of archaic human being
By Redação
History
The visible and the invisible
Despite attempts to erase the iconography of slavery, it has left its mark on both the people and the land
By Diego Viana
Archaeology
78,000-year-old human burial
The oldest known burial by modern humans in Africa took place about 78,000 years ago
By Redação
Archaeology
3,000-year-old city in the Valley of the Kings
In early April, archaeologists and the Egyptian government announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old city, the largest ever unearthed in ancient Egypt
By Redação
COVID-19
Death of a man; extinction of an ethnic group
Aruká Juma, the last person to speak the language of the Juma people, died of COVID-19 on February
By Redação
History
Unfolding the past
Using an X-ray microtomography scanner, an international team of researchers was able to read the contents of a letter from the Renaissance Period without actually opening it
By Redação