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Egypt's First Queen
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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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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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Features January/February 2018
Top 10 Discoveries of 2017
ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds
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Where the Ice Age Caribou Ranged
Searching for prehistoric hunting grounds in an unlikely place
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