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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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Howard Goldbaum/allaroundnevada.com

Features September/October 2025

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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Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark

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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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Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum

Features September/October 2025

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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Excavations of the sanctuary in the village of Torbulok in southern
Gunvor Lindström/Excavations supported by the German Research Foundation

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  • Features November/December 2018

    Reimagining the Crusades

    A detailed picture of more than two centuries of European Christian life in the Holy Land is emerging from new excavations at monasteries, towns, cemeteries, and some of the world’s most enduring castles

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    (Peter Horree/Alamy Stock Photo)

  • Features September/October 2018

    The Rulers of Foreign Lands

    Was a new regional power, once thought of as a bloodthirsty invading force, actually a catalyst for ancient Egypt’s most prosperous era?

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    (De Agostini Picture Library/G. Sioen/ Bridgeman Images)

  • Features September/October 2018

    Shipping Stone

    A wreck off the Sicilian coast offers a rare look into the world of Byzantine commerce

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    (Courtesy Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project)

  • Features July/August 2018

    Westminster Abbey’s Hidden History

    Far above the royal pomp and circumstance, archaeologists unexpectedly discover seven centuries of England’s past

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    (James Brittain-VIEW/Alamy Stock Photo)

  • Features July/August 2018

    The City at the Beginning of the World

    The only Maya city with an urban grid may embody a creation myth

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    (Courtesy Timothy Pugh/Itza Archaeological Project)

  • Features May/June 2018

    Emblems for the Afterlife

    Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos

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    (Linda Evans/Australian Center for Egyptology, Macquarie University, Sydney)
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