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The Cost of Doing Business

Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices

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A digital reconstruction shows how the Civil Basilica in the city of Aphrodisias in southwestern Anatolia would have appeared with the Edict of Maximum Prices inscribed on its facade.
Ece Savaş and Philip Stinson

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The Birds of Amarna

An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/ Rogers Fund, 1930

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Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica

Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture

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Courtesy Claudia I. Alvarado-León

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Stone Gods and Monsters

3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes

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The ritual center of Chavín de Huántar flourished in northern Peru.
Courtesy John Rick

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  • Features March/April 2018

    The Viking Great Army

    A tale of conflict and adaptation played out in northern England

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    (Bymuseum, Oslo, Norway/Index/Bridgeman Images)
  • Features January/February 2018

    Top 10 Discoveries of 2017

    ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds

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    (National Geographic Magazines/GettyImages)
  • Features January/February 2018

    Where the Ice Age Caribou Ranged

    Searching for prehistoric hunting grounds in an unlikely place

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    (Paul Nicklen/National Geographic Creative)
  • Features November/December 2017

    In the Time of the Rosetta Stone

    Turbulent events surrounding the Rosetta Stone are being revealed by new excavations in the ancient Egyptian city of Thmuis

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    (Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum)
  • 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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    (Chester Leeds, Courtesy Shumla)
  • Features September/October 2017

    The Heights We Go To

    The links among extreme environments, genetics, and the human ability to adapt

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    (Pawel Opaska / Alamy Stock Photo)
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