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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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Features January/February 2025
Dancing Days of the Maya
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
Features November/December 2024
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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Ancient DNA Revolution
How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past
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Features January/February 2017
Fire in the Fens
A short-lived settlement provides an unparalleled view of Bronze Age life in eastern England
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Features November/December 2016
Samhain Revival
Looking for the roots of Halloween in Ireland’s Boyne Valley
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Features November/December 2016
Expanding the Story
New discoveries are overturning long-held assumptions and revealing previously ignored complexities at the desert castle of Khirbet al-Mafjar
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Features September/October 2016
A New View of the Birthplace of the Olympics
Taking an innovative approach to one of ancient architecture’s most intriguing questions
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Features September/October 2016
Romans on the Bay of Naples
A spectacular villa under Positano sees the light
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Features September/October 2016
Worlds Within Us
Pulled from an unlikely source, ancient microbial DNA represents a new frontier in the study of the past—and modern health
(Courtesy LMAMR, University of Oklahoma)