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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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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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Myth of the Golden Dragon
Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty
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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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Features November/December 2017
Reading the White Shaman Mural
Paintings in a Texas canyon may depict mythic narratives that have endured for millennia
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The Heights We Go To
The links among extreme environments, genetics, and the human ability to adapt
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Painted Worlds
Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche
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Set in Stone
Why did prehistoric Native Americans fashion the enigmatic objects known as bannerstones?
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Features May/June 2017
The Wall at the End of the Empire
The long and varied history of life along Hadrian’s Wall
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