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  • Features November/December 2024

    Let the Games Begin

    How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

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  • 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
  • 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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Through The Years

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

  • Features March/April 2022

    Paradise Lost

    Archaeologists in Nova Scotia are uncovering evidence of thriving seventeenth-century French colonists and their brutal expulsion

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  • Features March/April 2022

    The Last King of Babylon

    Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s most eccentric ruler

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  • Features May/June 2022

    Secrets of Scotland’s Viking Age Hoard

    A massive cache of Viking silver and Anglo-Saxon heirlooms reveals the complex political landscape of ninth-century Britain

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