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Features November/December 2025

Secrets of the Seven Wonders

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

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Amazon frieze from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

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Features November/December 2025

Acts of Faith

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

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Features November/December 2025

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
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Features November/December 2025

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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Features November/December 2025

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 November/December 2022

    Mexico's Butterfly Warriors

    The annual monarch migration may have been a sacred event for the people of Mesoamerica

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  • Features November/December 2022

    Magical Mystery Door

    An investigation of an Egyptian sacred portal reveals a history of renovation and deception

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    (© The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

  • Features September/October 2022

    Rediscovering Egypt's Golden Dynasty

    How King Tutankhamun’s family forever changed the land of the Nile

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    (Photo by Hourig Sourouzian/ The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project, Courtesy of the World Monuments Fund)

  • Features September/October 2022

    1,000 Fathoms Down

    In the Gulf of Mexico, archaeologists believe they have identified a nineteenth-century whaling ship crewed by a diverse group of New Englanders

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    (Courtesy the New Bedford Whaling Museum)

  • Features July/August 2022

    Journeys of the Pyramid Builders

    The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor

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    (Kenneth Garrett)

  • Features July/August 2022

    The Philistine Age

    Archaeologists are reconsidering the origins and history of a much-maligned ancient people

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    (Glasshouse Images/Alamy Stock Photo)
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