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Italy’s Garden of  Monsters

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

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Features July/August 2025

Setting Sail for Valhalla

Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife

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Museum of the Viking Age, University of Oslo

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Lost City of the Samurai

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles

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Features May/June 2025

A Passion for Fruit

Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more

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Features March/April 2025

An Egyptian Temple Reborn

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens

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Painted lotus-leaf capitals after cleaning in the entrance hall of the temple of Khnum, Esna, Egypt
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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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    (Leemage/ Contributor/GettyImages)
  • 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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    (National Archives Records Administration, Washington, DC)
  • 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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    (Matt Stirn)
  • 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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    (EUNAN SWEENEY/ Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Features March/April 2020

    Remembering the Shark Hunters

    Unique burials show how ancient Peruvians celebrated dangerous deep-sea expeditions

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    (Courtesy Gabriel Prieto)
  • Features January 1, 2020

    Girsu’s Enigmatic Construction

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    (D. Tagen, Tello-Girsu Project, Iraq Scheme, The British Museum)
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