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Features July/August 2025
Italy’s Garden of Monsters
Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone sculptures?
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Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife
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Lost City of the Samurai
Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles
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A Passion for Fruit
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn
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Features July/August 2016
Franklin’s Last Voyage
After 170 years and countless searches, archaeologists have discovered a famed wreck in the frigid Arctic
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Features May/June 2016
The World's Oldest Writing
Used by scribes for more than three millennia, cuneiform writing opens a dramatic window onto ancient Mesopotamian life
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Features May/June 2016
An Overlooked Inca Wonder
Thousands of aligned holes in Peru’s Pisco Valley have attracted the attention of archaeologists
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Features March/April 2016
Öland, Sweden. Spring, A.D. 480
A hastily built refuge—a grisly massacre—a turbulent period in European history
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Features March/April 2016
France’s Roman Heritage
Magnificent wall paintings discovered in present-day Arles speak to a previously unknown history
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Features March/April 2016
Recovering Hidden Texts
At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection
(Copyright St. Catherine's Monastery)