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The Cost of Doing Business

Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices

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A digital reconstruction shows how the Civil Basilica in the city of Aphrodisias in southwestern Anatolia would have appeared with the Edict of Maximum Prices inscribed on its facade.
Ece Savaş and Philip Stinson

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The Birds of Amarna

An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/ Rogers Fund, 1930

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Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica

Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture

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Courtesy Claudia I. Alvarado-León

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Stone Gods and Monsters

3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes

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The ritual center of Chavín de Huántar flourished in northern Peru.
Courtesy John Rick

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    Secrets of Scotland's Viking Age Hoard

    A massive cache of Viking silver and Anglo-Saxon heirlooms reveals the complex political landscape of ninth-century Britain

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    A Monumental Imperial Biography

    How Constantine’s architects pieced together the past to create a new vision in the heart of Rome

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    The Last King of Babylon

    Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s most eccentric ruler

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    Paradise Lost

    Archaeologists in Nova Scotia are uncovering evidence of thriving seventeenth-century French colonists and their brutal expulsion

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    Exploring Notre Dame's Hidden Past

    The devastating 2019 fire is providing an unprecedented look at the secrets of the great cathedral

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    (Patrick Zachmann)
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    Top 10 Discoveries of 2021

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