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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 January/February 2020
Top 10 Discoveries of 2019
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds
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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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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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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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Minaret in the Mountains
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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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