Akiva Sanders is an archaeologist and art historian rewriting how our world was built.
He reads ancient fingerprints and flooded cities to reconstruct individual lives of workers, warlords, and rebels in early Mesopotamia.
With visual artist SaraNoa Mark, he’s traveled around the world to document what we decided to save from our past — and what gets washed away.
What Survives the Flood is their field notes on submerged cities, shattered empires, and the fragments that remind us who we are.
All ideas shared here were developed jointly in conversation.
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