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Features May/June 2026
The Unexpected World of the Odyssey
Discovering the surprising inspirations behind Homer’s great tales of the Trojan War
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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 By Ling Xin
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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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Artists of the Dark Zone
Deciphering Cherokee ritual imagery deep in the caves of the American South
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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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Minaret in the Mountains
Excavations near a 12th-century tower reveal the summer capital of a forgotten Islamic empire
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Features July/August 2019
Digging Deeper into Pompeii’s Past
New research is uncovering the ancient city’s dynamic story from its origins to the eruption that buried it
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Place of the Loyal Samurai
On the beaches and in the caves of a small Micronesian island, archaeologists have identified evocative evidence of one of WWII’s most brutal battles
(Courtesy Neil Price)