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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
  • Digs & Discoveries November/December 2024

    Egyptian Crocodile Hunt

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    Courtesy the University of Manchester
  • Features September/October 2024

    Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis

    After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world

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    Courtesy Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece

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  • 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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    (National Museums Scotland)

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