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Features January/February 2026
Top 10 Discoveries of 2025
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds
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Features January/February 2026
The Cost of Doing Business
Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices
Features January/February 2026
The Birds of Amarna
An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace
Features January/February 2026
Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica
Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture
Features January/February 2026
Stone Gods and Monsters
3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes
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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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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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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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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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Features July/August 2022
The Philistine Age
Archaeologists are reconsidering the origins and history of a much-maligned ancient people
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Features May/June 2022
The World of Egyptian Demons
Thousands of supernatural beings, including protective cobra spirits and knife-wielding turtles, guarded ancient Egyptians in life and death
(The Trustees of the British Museum)