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Features January/February 2026
Top 10 Discoveries of 2025
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds
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Features January/February 2026
The Cost of Doing Business
Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices
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The Birds of Amarna
An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace
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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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Stone Gods and Monsters
3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes
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Features September/October 2017
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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Features May/June 2017
The Blackener’s Cave
Viking Age outlaws, taboo, and ritual in Iceland’s lava fields
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Features May/June 2017
After the Battle
The defeat of a Scottish army at the 1650 Battle of Dunbar was just the beginning of an epic ordeal for the survivors
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