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Italy’s Garden of Monsters
Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone sculptures?
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Features July/August 2017
Set in Stone
Why did prehistoric Native Americans fashion the enigmatic objects known as bannerstones?
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The Wall at the End of the Empire
The long and varied history of life along Hadrian’s Wall
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The Blackener’s Cave
Viking Age outlaws, taboo, and ritual in Iceland’s lava fields
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After the Battle
The defeat of a Scottish army at the 1650 Battle of Dunbar was just the beginning of an epic ordeal for the survivors
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The First American Revolution
Exploring the legacy of the New World’s most successful native rebellion
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