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The Cost of Doing Business

Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices

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A digital reconstruction shows how the Civil Basilica in the city of Aphrodisias in southwestern Anatolia would have appeared with the Edict of Maximum Prices inscribed on its facade.
Ece Savaş and Philip Stinson

Features January/February 2026

The Birds of Amarna

An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/ Rogers Fund, 1930

Features January/February 2026

Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica

Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture

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Courtesy Claudia I. Alvarado-León

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Stone Gods and Monsters

3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes

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The ritual center of Chavín de Huántar flourished in northern Peru.
Courtesy John Rick

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  • Features March/April 2016

    Recovering Hidden Texts

    At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection

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    (Copyright St. Catherine's Monastery)
  • Features January/February 2016

    Top 10 Discoveries of 2015

    ARCHAEOLOGY's editors reveal the year's most compelling finds

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    (Courtesy © Denis Gliksman, Inrap)
  • Features January/February 2016

    The Many Lives of an English Manor House

    A major restoration project at a grand estate reveals centuries of a nation’s history

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    (Angelo Hornak / Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Features January/February 2016

    Family History

    Giving new life to some of Pompeii’s dead

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    (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy/De Agostini Picture Library/L. Pedicini/Bridgeman Images)
  • Features November/December 2015

    The Acropolis of Athens

    The decades-long project to restore the site to its iconic past

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    (Seiji Shimzu/Corbis)
  • Features November/December 2015

    Where There's Smoke...

    Learning to see the ARCHAEOLOGY under our feet

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    (Vincent Scarano on behalf of Connecticut College)
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