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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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A Passion for Fruit
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn
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Features January/February 2018
Top 10 Discoveries of 2017
ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds
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Features January/February 2018
Where the Ice Age Caribou Ranged
Searching for prehistoric hunting grounds in an unlikely place
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Features November/December 2017
In the Time of the Rosetta Stone
Turbulent events surrounding the Rosetta Stone are being revealed by new excavations in the ancient Egyptian city of Thmuis
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Features November/December 2017
Reading the White Shaman Mural
Paintings in a Texas canyon may depict mythic narratives that have endured for millennia
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Features September/October 2017
The Heights We Go To
The links among extreme environments, genetics, and the human ability to adapt
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Features September/October 2017
Painted Worlds
Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche
(Courtesy Lisa Trever)