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Features January/February 2025
Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds
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Features January/February 2025
Dancing Days of the Maya
In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions
Features November/December 2024
Let the Games Begin
How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses
Features November/December 2024
The Many Faces of the Kingdom of Shu
Thousands of fantastical bronzes are beginning to reveal the secrets of a legendary Chinese dynasty
Features September/October 2024
Ancient DNA Revolution
How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past
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Features July/August 2020
Idol of the Painted Temple
On Peru’s central coast, an ornately carved totem was venerated across centuries of upheaval and conquest
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Features May/June 2020
Weapons of the Ancient World
How people of the past developed arms to master the challenges of their time
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Features May/June 2020
A Path to Freedom
At a Union Army camp in Kentucky, enslaved men, women, and children struggled for their lives and fought to be free
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Features May/June 2020
Villages in the Sky
High in the Rockies, archaeologists have discovered evidence of mountain life 4,000 years ago
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Features March/April 2020
Inside a Medieval Gaelic Castle
A tiny Irish island holds the secrets of an unknown royal way of life
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Features March/April 2020
Remembering the Shark Hunters
Unique burials show how ancient Peruvians celebrated dangerous deep-sea expeditions
(Courtesy Gabriel Prieto)