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Features March/April 2026
Model Homes
A look inside miniature worlds created for the living, the dead, and the divine
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Features March/April 2026
Pompeii's House of Dionysian Delights
Vivid frescoes in an opulent dining room celebrate the wild rites of the wine god
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Return to Serpent Mountain
Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert
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Himalayan High Art
In a remote region of India, archaeologists trace 4,000 years of history through a vast collection of petroglyphs
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What Happened in Goyet Cave?
New analysis of Neanderthal remains reveals surprisingly grim secrets
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Features July/August 2018
Westminster Abbey’s Hidden History
Far above the royal pomp and circumstance, archaeologists unexpectedly discover seven centuries of England’s past
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The City at the Beginning of the World
The only Maya city with an urban grid may embody a creation myth
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Features May/June 2018
Emblems for the Afterlife
Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos
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Features May/June 2018
Global Cargo
Found in the waters off a small Dutch island, a seventeenth-century shipwreck provides an unparalleled view of the golden age of European trade
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Features March/April 2018
The Archaeology of Gardens
ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors explore the many reasons people have tended the earth
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The Viking Great Army
A tale of conflict and adaptation played out in northern England
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