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Features January/February 2026

The Cost of Doing Business

Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices

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A digital reconstruction shows how the Civil Basilica in the city of Aphrodisias in southwestern Anatolia would have appeared with the Edict of Maximum Prices inscribed on its facade.
Ece Savaş and Philip Stinson

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The Birds of Amarna

An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/ Rogers Fund, 1930

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Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica

Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture

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Courtesy Claudia I. Alvarado-León

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Stone Gods and Monsters

3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes

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The ritual center of Chavín de Huántar flourished in northern Peru.
Courtesy John Rick

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  • Features January 1, 2020

    Girsu’s Enigmatic Construction

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    (D. Tagen, Tello-Girsu Project, Iraq Scheme, The British Museum)
  • Features January/February 2020

    Top 10 Discoveries of 2019

    ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds

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    (Courtesy Mohamed Megahed)
  • Features November/December 2019

    Searching for the Witches’ Tower

    Archaeologists hunt for evidence of a 17th-century English family accused of witchcraft

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    (Art Directors & TRIP/Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Features November/December 2019

    Artists of the Dark Zone

    Deciphering Cherokee ritual imagery deep in the caves of the American South

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    (Alan Cressler)
  • 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)
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