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Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
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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
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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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Ancient DNA Revolution
How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past
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Freedom Fort
In eighteenth-century Spanish Florida, a militia composed of formerly enslaved Africans fought for their liberty
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In the Time of the Copper Kings
Some 3,500 years ago, prosperous merchants on Cyprus controlled the world’s most valuable commodity
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2023
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China's River of Gold
Excavations in Sichuan Province reveal the lost treasure of an infamous seventeenth-century warlord
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Assyrian Women of Letters
4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets illuminate the personal lives of Mesopotamian businesswomen
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When Lions Were King
Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection
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