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Features September/October 2025
How to Build a Medieval Castle
Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?
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Features September/October 2025
Spirit Cave Connection
The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people
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Here Comes the Sun
On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows
Features September/October 2025
Myth of the Golden Dragon
Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty
Features September/October 2025
Remote Sanctuary at the Crossroads of Empire
Ancient Bactrians invented distinct ways to worship their gods 2,300 years ago in Tajikistan
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Features March/April 2020
Inside a Medieval Gaelic Castle
A tiny Irish island holds the secrets of an unknown royal way of life
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Features March/April 2020
Remembering the Shark Hunters
Unique burials show how ancient Peruvians celebrated dangerous deep-sea expeditions
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Features January 1, 2020
Girsu’s Enigmatic Construction
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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
(Alan Cressler)