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  • Features January/February 2019

    A Dark Age Beacon

    Long shrouded in Arthurian lore, an island off the coast of Cornwall may have been the remote stronghold of early British kings

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    (Skyscan Photolibrary/Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2014 January/February 2015

    Sunken Byzantine Basilica

    Lake Iznik, Turkey

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    (Mustafa Sahin/Uludag University)
  • Features November/December 2024

    The Many Faces of the Kingdom of Shu

    Thousands of fantastical bronzes are beginning to reveal the secrets of a legendary Chinese dynasty

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    Courtesy Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology

Through The Years

Explore decades of exciting archaeological discoveries, new technologies in the field, and stunning images in the Archaeology magazine archive.

  • Letter from Doggerland March/April 2022

    Mapping a Vanished Landscape

    Evidence of a lost Mesolithic world lies deep beneath the dark waters of the North Sea

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    (M.J. Thomas)
  • Features July/August 2023

    An Elegant Enigma

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

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    (Courtesy Museum Kaapskil)
  • Features September/October 2022

    1,000 Fathoms Down

    In the Gulf of Mexico, archaeologists believe they have identified a nineteenth-century whaling ship crewed by a diverse group of New Englanders

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    (Courtesy the New Bedford Whaling Museum)

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