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Features September/October 2026
The Music of Time
Tuning in to the sounds of the ancient world
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A Change in Fashion
Hoards of lavish gold and silver neck rings buried on an English hill reflect dramatic social change
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Cultivating Fields of Stone
Peru’s ancient farmers used intricate rock maps to plan for the future
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Where Was Ancient Egypt Born?
Archaeologists are reimagining a time before the first pharaohs
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2,000 Years Under the Sea
The story of Greece’s famed Antikythera wreck is finally being revealed
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Pioneers of Lakefront Living
Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on stilts
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The Last Maya Kingdom
On the shores of a lake in Guatemala, the Itzá people defied the Spanish for nearly 200 years
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Art for the Ages
A surreal style of painting endured for 4,000 years in the canyonlands of West Texas
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Bridge to the Past
The Yellow River brought both prosperity and calamity to China’s dazzling medieval capital
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Model Homes
A look inside miniature worlds created for the living, the dead, and the divine
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Pompeii's House of Dionysian Delights
Vivid frescoes in an opulent dining room celebrate the wild rites of the wine god
Courtesy Archaeological Park of Pompeii