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Kingdom of Fortresses

How diverse and far-flung Iron Age chiefdoms united to challenge the Assyrian Empire

Ayanis citadel

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Features November/December 2026

A Tomb of One’s Own

Life behind the scenes in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

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Painted scene from Ipuy's chapel depicting men catching fish from a boat
© Matjaz Kacicnik/Project TT 217–The Tomb of the Sculptor Ipuy in Context (JGU Mainz, IFAO Cairo)

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Outfitting Viking Voyagers

In Denmark, archaeologists have discovered a massive factory that equipped an innovative fleet

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Aerial view of excavation of three pit house foundations, Soften, Denmark
Moesgaard Museum

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Stone Age Stargazers

Did artists 12,000 years ago illuminate a cave in Tajikistan with their vision of the Milky Way?

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Unearthing the Outlanders

New discoveries challenge ancient prophecies about the peoples living on China’s borders three millennia ago

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Courtesy Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology

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    Egypt's Eternal City

    Once the most sacred site on the Nile, Heliopolis was all but forgotten until archaeologists returned to save it from disappearing forever

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    Sicily's Lost Theater

    Archaeologists resume the search for the home of drama in a majestic Greek sanctuary

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    Top 10 Discoveries of 2018

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    A Dark Age Beacon

    Long shrouded in Arthurian lore, an island off the coast of Cornwall may have been the remote stronghold of early British kings

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    The Marks of Time

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    Reimagining the Crusades

    A detailed picture of more than two centuries of European Christian life in the Holy Land is emerging from new excavations at monasteries, towns, cemeteries, and some of the world’s most enduring castles

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