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Features September/October 2026
The Music of Time
Tuning in to the sounds of the ancient world
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A Change in Fashion
Hoards of lavish gold and silver neck rings buried on an English hill reflect dramatic social change
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Cultivating Fields of Stone
Peru’s ancient farmers used intricate rock maps to plan for the future
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Where Was Ancient Egypt Born?
Archaeologists are reimagining a time before the first pharaohs
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2,000 Years Under the Sea
The story of Greece’s famed Antikythera wreck is finally being revealed
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Features May/June 2018
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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Features March/April 2018
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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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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