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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

Digs & Discoveries July/August 2026

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 July/August 2023

    Update: Temple Times Two

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    (Courtesy Lisa Trever)

  • Digs & Discoveries July/August 2023

    Viking Support Animals

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    (The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)

  • Digs & Discoveries July/August 2023

    The Palace on Tablet Hill

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    (© The Girsu Project)

  • Digs & Discoveries July/August 2023

    A Surprise in Sudan

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    (Dawid Wieczorek)

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    Bullish on the Storm God

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    (Courtesy Murat Akar; Département des Antiquités orientales © 2008 Musée du Louvre/Thierry Ollivier)

  • Digs & Discoveries July/August 2023

    Hybrid Hoard

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    (Photo © Archeologie West-Friesland/Fleur Schinning)
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