July/August 2023 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents July/August 2023

FEATURES

Africa's Merchant Kings

The early Christian kingdom of Aksum was at the heart of a great maritime trading network

An Elegant Enigma

The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck

Rise of the Persian Princes

In their grand capital Persepolis, Achaemenid rulers expressed their vision of a prosperous, multicultural empire

Inside a Magnificent Celtic Tomb

New investigations of an Iron Age burial in France reveal the source of one woman’s exceptional power

Defending the Canyonlands

Rare shields from the American Southwest are a legacy of a turbulent time in Native history

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DEPARTMENTS

Digs & Discoveries

A New Day for the Ancestors' Mounds
A Game to Remember
Ancient Egyptian Astrology
Bog Togs
Update: Temple Times Two
Viking Support Animals
The Palace on Tablet Hill
A Surprise in Sudan
Bullish on the Storm God
Hybrid Hoard
Big Game Hunting
Off the Grid: The Ancient City of Cuicuilco, Mexico

Around the World

Bolivia’s mystery sites, Viking visits to North America, a Roman doctor’s high-end instruments, DNA from a Paleolithic pendant, and tailoring clothes 40,000 years ago

Letter from Patagonia

For 13,000 years, hunter-gatherers thrived in some of the world’s harshest environments

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