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Egypt's First Queen
How a trailblazing ruler pulled her realm back from the brink
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Greek and Roman soldiers fired pointed barbs at their enemies
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Archaeologists are rethinking how kings shared power beyond the great capitals of medieval Zimbabwe
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Discovering the origins of the peculiar racket game that swept sixteenth-century France
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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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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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Painted Worlds
Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche
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Features July/August 2017
Set in Stone
Why did prehistoric Native Americans fashion the enigmatic objects known as bannerstones?
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