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Digs & Discoveries November/December 2026

Night of the Dangerous Dead

Mutilated remains in medieval burials show how far vampire hunters were willing to go

Mural depicting corpse biting human, Haukipudas, Finland

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Digs & Discoveries November/December 2026

Bottom of the Barrel

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Marble busts
Courtesy Assaf Peretz and Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority

Digs & Discoveries November/December 2026

Moche Pottery Pros

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Moche ceramics
Courtesy Henry Tantaleán/Chicama Archaeological Program

Digs & Discoveries November/December 2026

Herculean Hilarity

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Bronze ring fragment (3.5 inches by 1.25 inches)
National Museum of Union, Alba Iulia

Digs & Discoveries November/December 2026

To Bow or to Throw

Hunters in western North America wielded atlatls for 8,600 years—why did they suddenly stop?

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Atlatl dart point, Yukon, Canada
Photo by Holly Smith, Government of Yukon

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  • Digs & Discoveries September/October 2026

    Gyrfalcons Over Baghdad

    Dozens of birds gifted to medieval Abbasid caliphs were likely imported from Iceland

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    Gyrfalcon
    Tony Baggett/AdobeStock
  • Digs & Discoveries September/October 2026

    Game On

    Archaeologists have discovered that a ruined ancient city in Libya had a surprising second life

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    Gaming boards, Ptolemais, Libya
    Zosia Kowarska
  • Digs & Discoveries September/October 2026

    Meet the Manatees

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    Manatee
    Sobuj/AdobeStock
  • Digs & Discoveries September/October 2026

    The Best Place to Read

    How did a rare medieval wood notebook and pieces of silk tissue end up in a toilet?

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    Wood notebook (left) and wax-covered pages (right)
    LWL/S. Brentführer
  • Digs & Discoveries September/October 2026

    Sardinian Ritual Summit

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    Four-handled jug
    After Pilo and Usai 2020, in Notizie e Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica
  • Digs & Discoveries September/October 2026

    Foot Notes

    Why did ancient Scandinavians make footprint-shaped rock carvings that didn’t match?

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    Podomorphs highlighted with paint, southern Sweden
    A. Toreld, SHFA
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