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Features January/February 2025
Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds
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In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions
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Let the Games Begin
How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses
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The Many Faces of the Kingdom of Shu
Thousands of fantastical bronzes are beginning to reveal the secrets of a legendary Chinese dynasty
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Features March/April 2017
The First American Revolution
Exploring the legacy of the New World’s most successful native rebellion
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Kings of Cooperation
The Olmec city of Tres Zapotes may have owed its longevity to a new form of government
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Features March/April 2017
The Road Almost Taken
An ancient city in Germany tells a different story of the Roman conquest
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December 7, 1941
The underwater archaeology of the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Features January/February 2017
Hoards of the Vikings
Evidence of trade, diplomacy, and vast wealth on an unassuming island in the Baltic Sea
(Gabriel Hildebrand/The Royal Coin Cabinet, Sweden)