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Artifacts October 10, 2024

Greek Terracotta Dolls

Metropolitan Museum of Art; © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Anne Chauvet/Art Resource, NY

Letter from Poland October 10, 2024

Remembering an Unspeakable Crime

Excavations of a mass grave expose evidence of Nazi-era massacres

Courtesy Dawid Kobiałka

Features October 10, 2024

Europe’s Lost Bronze Age Civilization

Archaeologists have discovered more than 100 previously unknown megasites north of the Danube

Courtesy Barry Molloy

Features October 10, 2024

Chalice of Souls

A Maya jade heirloom embodies an enduring sacred tradition

Jon G. Fuller, Jr./Alamy

Features October 10, 2024

Exploring Ancient Persia’s Royal Fire Temple

At a remote lake in the mountains of Iran, archaeologists have identified the most revered Zoroastrian sanctuary

Ruins of a fire temple at the site of Takht-e Soleyman in northwest Iran
Bridgeman Images

Letter from Siberia August 8, 2024

Strongholds of the Taiga

Beginning 8,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the forests of northern Russia built some of the world’s earliest fortified settlements

Courtesy Henny Piezonka

Artifacts August 8, 2024

Paleolithic Eyed Needles

Gilligan et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadp2887 (2024)

Features August 8, 2024

Trees of the Sky World

Why Australia’s Indigenous Wiradjuri people carved sacred symbols into trees to mark burials of their honored dead

Courtesy Caroline Spry

Features August 8, 2024

The People Before the Book

A trove of papyri unearthed on the Egyptian island of Elephantine gives voice to an early Jewish community

Bildarchiv Steffens/Bridgeman Images

Features August 8, 2024

Pompeii Style

Inside the Roman houses where archaeologists continue to discover evocative new masterpieces

Courtesy Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei