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Features November/December 2025

Secrets of the Seven Wonders

How archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient world's most marvelous monuments

Amazon frieze from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

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Acts of Faith

Evidence emerges of the day in 1562 when an infamous Spanish cleric tried to destroy Maya religion

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Temples to Tradition

A looted cache of bronzes compels archaeologists to explore Celtic sanctuaries across Burgundy

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The temple at the Gallo-Roman sanctuary in Couan in east-central France
M. Thivet, MSHE

Features November/December 2025

Oasis Makers of Arabia

Researchers are just beginning to understand how people thrived in the desert of Oman some 5,000 years ago

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Beehive-shaped tombs at the site of Al-Ayn, Oman
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Searching for Venezuela’s Undiscovered Artists

Inspired by their otherworldly landscape, ancient people created a new rock art tradition

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José Miguel Pérez-Gómez

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    Ancient Tax Time

    How taxpayers funded the rise of empires

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    Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers?

    The 11,000-year-old stone circles of Göbekli Tepe in modern Turkey may have been monuments to a vanishing way of life

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    (Vincent J. Musi)
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    The Amazing True Story of Nathan Harrison

    Excavations of a mountain cabin uncover the hidden life of a formerly enslaved man who became a California legend

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    (Courtesy the Nathan “Nate” Harrison Historical Archaeology Project, Kirby Collection)
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    The Visigoths' Imperial Ambitions

    How an unlikely Visigothic city rose in Spain amid the chaotic aftermath of Rome’s final collapse

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    Top 10 Discoveries of 2020

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    Top 10 Discoveries of the Decade

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    (Pasquale Sorrentino)
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