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Features July/August 2025
Italy’s Garden of Monsters
Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone sculptures?
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Setting Sail for Valhalla
Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife
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Lost City of the Samurai
Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles
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A Passion for Fruit
Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn
By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens
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Features January/February 2024
In the Time of the Copper Kings
Some 3,500 years ago, prosperous merchants on Cyprus controlled the world’s most valuable commodity
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2023
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds
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Features November/December 2023
China's River of Gold
Excavations in Sichuan Province reveal the lost treasure of an infamous seventeenth-century warlord
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Assyrian Women of Letters
4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets illuminate the personal lives of Mesopotamian businesswomen
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Features September/October 2023
When Lions Were King
Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection
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Features September/October 2023
Ukraine's Lost Capital
In 1708, Peter the Great destroyed Baturyn, a bastion of Cossack independence and culture
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