Features

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

RECENT Features

Features November/December 2025

Acts of Faith

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

Read Article
Adriana Rosas/Alamy

Features November/December 2025

Temples to Tradition

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

Read Article
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

Read Article
Beehive-shaped tombs at the site of Al-Ayn, Oman
Vadim Nefedov/Alamy

Features November/December 2025

Searching for Venezuela’s Undiscovered Artists

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

Read Article
José Miguel Pérez-Gómez

Sort, Filter & Search Options

Filter by

Filter By Year

  • Features March/April 2020

    Remembering the Shark Hunters

    Unique burials show how ancient Peruvians celebrated dangerous deep-sea expeditions

    Read Article
    (Courtesy Gabriel Prieto)
  • Features January 1, 2020

    Girsu’s Enigmatic Construction

    Read Article
    (D. Tagen, Tello-Girsu Project, Iraq Scheme, The British Museum)
  • Features January/February 2020

    Top 10 Discoveries of 2019

    ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds

    Read Article
    (Courtesy Mohamed Megahed)
  • Features November/December 2019

    Searching for the Witches’ Tower

    Archaeologists hunt for evidence of a 17th-century English family accused of witchcraft

    Read Article
    (Art Directors & TRIP/Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Features November/December 2019

    Artists of the Dark Zone

    Deciphering Cherokee ritual imagery deep in the caves of the American South

    Read Article
    (Alan Cressler)
  • 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

    Read Article
    (griffinwarrior.org, Jeff Vanderpool/ Courtesy of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati)
Loading...