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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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Features July/August 2025

Setting Sail for Valhalla

Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife

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Museum of the Viking Age, University of Oslo

Features May/June 2025

Lost City of the Samurai

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles

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Features May/June 2025

A Passion for Fruit

Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more

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Features March/April 2025

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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Painted lotus-leaf capitals after cleaning in the entrance hall of the temple of Khnum, Esna, Egypt
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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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  • Features January/February 2024

    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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  • Features November/December 2023

    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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