Top 10 Discoveries of 2025

Features January/February 2026

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds
Pasquale Sorrentino
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  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 January/February 2026

    Tales from the Neolithic

    Karahantepe, Turkey

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    Yusuf Aslan
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    Return of the King

    Caracol, Belize

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    Courtesy of the Caracol Archaeological Project, University of Houston
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    The First Indo-European Speakers

    Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia

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    Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY
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    Crete's Inner Circles

    Papoura Mountain, Greece

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    George Drakonakis/Ephorate of Antiquities of Heraklion
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    Oldest Mummified People

    Southern China and Southeast Asia

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    Courtesy Indonesian-French Joint Prehistory Program
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    Dining With Dionysus

    Pompeii, Italy

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    Pasquale Sorrentino
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    The Case of the Missing Pharaoh

    Thebes, Egypt

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    Courtesy New Kingdom Research Foundation
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    Hymn to Babylon

    Sippar, Iraq

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    © Anmar A. Fadhil, Department of Archaeology, University of Baghdad/Iraq Museum and the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage
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    The Winds of Change

    Huanchaco, Peru

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    Courtesy Gabriel Prieto
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    A Feminine Touch

    Çatalhöyük, Turkey

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    Tolga İldun
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    More From the Top 10 Discoveries of 2025

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    Courtesy New Kingdom Research Foundation
  • Features January/February 2026

    Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica

    Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture

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    Courtesy Claudia I. Alvarado-León
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    Stone Gods and Monsters

    3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes

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    The ritual center of Chavín de Huántar flourished in northern Peru.
    Courtesy John Rick
  • Letter from France January/February 2026

    Neolithic Cultural Revolution

    How farmers came together to build Europe’s most grandiose funerary monuments some 7,000 years ago

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    © Laurent Juhel, Inrap
  • Artifacts January/February 2026

    Sardinian Bronze Figurines

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    Courtesy Daniel Berger