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Features November/December 2025

Secrets of the Seven Wonders

How archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient world's most marvelous monuments

Amazon frieze from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

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Acts of Faith

Evidence emerges of the day in 1562 when an infamous Spanish cleric tried to destroy Maya religion

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Temples to Tradition

A looted cache of bronzes compels archaeologists to explore Celtic sanctuaries across Burgundy

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The temple at the Gallo-Roman sanctuary in Couan in east-central France
M. Thivet, MSHE

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Oasis Makers of Arabia

Researchers are just beginning to understand how people thrived in the desert of Oman some 5,000 years ago

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Beehive-shaped tombs at the site of Al-Ayn, Oman
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Searching for Venezuela’s Undiscovered Artists

Inspired by their otherworldly landscape, ancient people created a new rock art tradition

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José Miguel Pérez-Gómez

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  • Features September/October 2025

    How to Build a Medieval Castle

    Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?

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    © D. Gliksman
  • Features September/October 2025

    Spirit Cave Connection

    The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people

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    Howard Goldbaum/allaroundnevada.com
  • Features September/October 2025

    Here Comes the Sun

    On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows

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    Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark
  • Features September/October 2025

    Myth of the Golden Dragon

    Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty

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    Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum
  • Features September/October 2025

    Remote Sanctuary at the Crossroads of Empire

    Ancient Bactrians invented distinct ways to worship their gods 2,300 years ago in Tajikistan

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    Excavations of the sanctuary in the village of Torbulok in southern
    Gunvor Lindström/Excavations supported by the German Research Foundation
  • Features July/August 2025

    Italy’s Garden of  Monsters

    Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone sculptures?

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    Courtesy Cosimo Monteleone, Rachele Bernardello, and Paolo Borin
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