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Digs & Discoveries July/August 2026

Ancient China’s “Pony Express”

Han Dynasty postal horses had hard lives but evocative names—meet Wandering Hawk, Podgy and Lumpy, and Mr. Red Horse

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Han Dynasty bronze horse figurine

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Coyote’s Quest

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Tamil Tourists

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Cikai Korran tomb graffiti, Valley of the Kings, Egypt
Ingo Strauch

Digs & Discoveries July/August 2026

Put On Your Best Face

An opulent Roman villa hid a very peculiar staircase and an underground room for secret rites

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Fresco, House of Cybele, Aphrodisias, Turkey
Courtesy R. R. R. Smith, Aphrodisias Excavations

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Viking Payday

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Lamb of God silver coin (both sides)
Photographs Søren Greve/National Museum of Denmark

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  • Digs & Discoveries May/June 2026

    Tomb of the Owl Lord

    Archaeologists have unearthed a Zapotec burial decorated with sublime symbols of night and death

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    Stucco owl headdress relief
    Luis Gerardo Peña Torres/INAH

  • Digs & Discoveries March/April 2026

    The Path Not Taken

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    Paranthropus boisei hand bones
    Louise N. Leakey

  • Digs & Discoveries March/April 2026

    Cup or Cone?

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    Cornets from Teleilat Ghassul
    Sharon Zuhovitzky, courtesy of the Pontifical Biblical Institute

  • Digs & Discoveries March/April 2026

    Roman River Barge

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    Barge excavation, Kupa River, Croatia
    Courtesy Anton Divić/Navarchos

  • Digs & Discoveries March/April 2026

    Prehistoric Plant Pots

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    Potsherd with plant decorations
    Courtesy Yosef Garfinkel

  • Digs & Discoveries March/April 2026

    Egypt’s Temple of Creation

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    Temple complex, Karnak, Egypt
    Mountains Hunter/AdobeStock
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