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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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Features January/February 2021
Return to the River
Members of Virginia’s Rappahannock tribe are at work with archaeologists to document the landscape they call home
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Features November/December 2020
Alcohol Through the Ages
How the magic of fermentation has transformed the human experience
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Features November/December 2020
In the Reign of the Sun Kings
Old Kingdom pharaohs faced a reckoning that reshaped Egypt’s balance of power
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A Nubian Kingdom Rises
Excavations at a city on the Nile reveal the origins of an ancient African power
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Features September/October 2020
Walking Into New Worlds
Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache
(Courtesy Jack Ives/Apachean Origins Project)