At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, a team of curators obsessively studies the artifacts of a lost civilization—our own. As they attempt to reconstruct the daily lives, rituals, and ultimate downfall of humankind, their discoveries raise unsettling questions about the world we live in now. With sharp wit and eerie foresight, Jordan Harrison’s The Antiquities explores the blurred lines between past and future, human and machine, and what it truly means to be alive.