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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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  • 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

    Let the Games Begin

    How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

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  • 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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