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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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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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Myth of the Golden Dragon
Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty
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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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Features May/June 2019
Inside King Tut’s Tomb
A decade of research offers a new look at the burial of Egypt’s most famous pharaoh
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Features March/April 2019
Egypt's Eternal City
Once the most sacred site on the Nile, Heliopolis was all but forgotten until archaeologists returned to save it from disappearing forever
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Features March/April 2019
Sicily's Lost Theater
Archaeologists resume the search for the home of drama in a majestic Greek sanctuary
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Features January/February 2019
Top 10 Discoveries of 2018
ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds
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Features January/February 2019
A Dark Age Beacon
Long shrouded in Arthurian lore, an island off the coast of Cornwall may have been the remote stronghold of early British kings
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Features November/December 2018
The Marks of Time
A six-week heat wave in the U.K. and Ireland exposes nearly 5,000 years of history
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