21st-Century Slaves: There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives

Winged mummy of Peru: In a coastal desert, archaeologists discover a 1, 300- year-old, human-size effigy of a bird and, inside, the skeleton of a woman thought to be a shaman