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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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Spirit Cave Connection

The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people

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Howard Goldbaum/allaroundnevada.com

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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

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Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark

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Myth of the Golden Dragon

Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty

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Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum

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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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Excavations of the sanctuary in the village of Torbulok in southern
Gunvor Lindström/Excavations supported by the German Research Foundation

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  • 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

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    (griffinwarrior.org, Jeff Vanderpool/ Courtesy of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati)
  • Features September/October 2019

    Minaret in the Mountains

    Excavations near a 12th-century tower reveal the summer capital of a forgotten Islamic empire

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    (Courtesy Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project)
  • Features July/August 2019

    Digging Deeper into Pompeii’s Past

    New research is uncovering the ancient city’s dynamic story from its origins to the eruption that buried it

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    (Pasquale Sorrentino)
  • Features July/August 2019

    Place of the Loyal Samurai

    On the beaches and in the caves of a small Micronesian island, archaeologists have identified evocative evidence of one of WWII’s most brutal battles

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    (Courtesy Neil Price)
  • Features May/June 2019

    Mapping the Past

    ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors explore the genius and creativity of mapmakers through time

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    (Courtesy of the Penn Museum/object #B13885)
  • Features May/June 2019

    Bringing Back Moche Badminton

    How reviving an ancient ritual game gave an archaeologist new insight into the lives of ancient Peruvians

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    (Courtesy Christopher Donnan, Illustration by Donna McClelland)
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