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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
Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn
By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens
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Features January/February 2016
Top 10 Discoveries of 2015
ARCHAEOLOGY's editors reveal the year's most compelling finds
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Features January/February 2016
The Many Lives of an English Manor House
A major restoration project at a grand estate reveals centuries of a nation’s history
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Features November/December 2015
The Acropolis of Athens
The decades-long project to restore the site to its iconic past
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Features November/December 2015
Where There's Smoke...
Learning to see the ARCHAEOLOGY under our feet
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Features September/October 2015
Golden House of an Emperor
How archaeologists are saving Nero’s fabled pleasure palace
(Marco Ansaloni)