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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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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 January/February 2020

    Top 10 Discoveries of 2019

    ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds

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    (Courtesy Mohamed Megahed)
  • Features November/December 2019

    Searching for the Witches’ Tower

    Archaeologists hunt for evidence of a 17th-century English family accused of witchcraft

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    (Art Directors & TRIP/Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Features November/December 2019

    Artists of the Dark Zone

    Deciphering Cherokee ritual imagery deep in the caves of the American South

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    (Alan Cressler)
  • Features September/October 2019

    World of the Griffin Warrior

    A single grave and its extraordinary contents are changing the way archaeologists view two great ancient Greek cultures

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    (griffinwarrior.org, Jeff Vanderpool/ Courtesy of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati)
  • Features September/October 2019

    Minaret in the Mountains

    Excavations near a 12th-century tower reveal the summer capital of a forgotten Islamic empire

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    (Courtesy Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project)
  • Features July/August 2019

    Digging Deeper into Pompeii’s Past

    New research is uncovering the ancient city’s dynamic story from its origins to the eruption that buried it

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    (Pasquale Sorrentino)
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