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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
Features January/February 2026
The Birds of Amarna
An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace
Features January/February 2026
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 March/April 2017
The First American Revolution
Exploring the legacy of the New World’s most successful native rebellion
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Features March/April 2017
Kings of Cooperation
The Olmec city of Tres Zapotes may have owed its longevity to a new form of government
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Features March/April 2017
The Road Almost Taken
An ancient city in Germany tells a different story of the Roman conquest
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Features January/February 2017
December 7, 1941
The underwater ARCHAEOLOGY of the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Features January/February 2017
Top 10 Discoveries of 2016
ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds
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Features January/February 2017
Hoards of the Vikings
Evidence of trade, diplomacy, and vast wealth on an unassuming island in the Baltic Sea
(Gabriel Hildebrand/The Royal Coin Cabinet, Sweden)