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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
Features March/April 2026
Return to Serpent Mountain
Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert
Features March/April 2026
Himalayan High Art
In a remote region of India, archaeologists trace 4,000 years of history through a vast collection of petroglyphs
Features March/April 2026
What Happened in Goyet Cave?
New analysis of Neanderthal remains reveals surprisingly grim secrets
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Features January/February 2018
Top 10 Discoveries of 2017
ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds
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Features January/February 2018
Where the Ice Age Caribou Ranged
Searching for prehistoric hunting grounds in an unlikely place
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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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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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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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Features September/October 2017
Painted Worlds
Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche
(Courtesy Lisa Trever)