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Features September/October 2025
How to Build a Medieval Castle
Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?
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Features September/October 2025
Spirit Cave Connection
The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people
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Here Comes the Sun
On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows
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Myth of the Golden Dragon
Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty
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Remote Sanctuary at the Crossroads of Empire
Ancient Bactrians invented distinct ways to worship their gods 2,300 years ago in Tajikistan
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Features November/December 2015
The Acropolis of Athens
The decades-long project to restore the site to its iconic past
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Features November/December 2015
Where There's Smoke...
Learning to see the ARCHAEOLOGY under our feet
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Features September/October 2015
Golden House of an Emperor
How archaeologists are saving Nero’s fabled pleasure palace
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Features September/October 2015
New York's Original Seaport
Traces of the city’s earliest beginnings as an economic and trading powerhouse lie just beneath the streets of South Street Seaport
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Features September/October 2015
Cultural Revival
Excavations near a Yup’ik village in Alaska are helping its people reconnect with the epic stories and practices of their ancestors
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Features July/August 2015
The Story of the Horse
How its unique role in human culture transformed history
(Araldo de Luca)