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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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Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark

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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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Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum

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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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Excavations of the sanctuary in the village of Torbulok in southern
Gunvor Lindström/Excavations supported by the German Research Foundation

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  • Features July/August 2015

    In Search of a Philosopher’s Stone

    At a remote site in Turkey, archaeologists have found fragments of the ancient world’s most massive inscription

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    (Martin Bachmann)
  • Features May/June 2015

    The Cult of Amun

    In the epic rivalry between ancient Egypt and Nubia, one god had enduring appeal

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    (Courtesy Y. Guichard © The Berber-Abidiya Archaeological Project)
  • Features May/June 2015

    The Minoans of Crete

    More than 100 years after it was first discovered, the town of Gournia is once again redefining the island's past

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    (Jarrett A. Lobell)
  • Features March/April 2015

    Rome's Imperial Port

    The vast site of Portus holds the key to understanding how Rome evolved from a mighty city to an empire

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    (De Agostini Picture Library/Bridgeman Images)
  • Features March/April 2015

    The Vikings in Ireland

    A surprising discovery in Dublin challenges long-held ideas about when the Scandinavian raiders arrived on the Emerald Isle

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  • Features January/February 2015

    Top 10 Discoveries of 2014

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

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