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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
Features September/October 2025
Here Comes the Sun
On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows
Features September/October 2025
Myth of the Golden Dragon
Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty
Features September/October 2025
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 September/October 2014
Castaways
Illegally enslaved and then marooned on remote Tromelin Island for fifteen years, with only ARCHAEOLOGY to tell their story
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Features July/August 2014
Under Mexico City
Beneath the capital's busy streets, archaeologists are discovering the buried world of the Aztecs
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Features July/August 2014
The Tomb of the Silver Hands
Long-buried evidence of an Etruscan noble family
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Features July/August 2014
Revisiting the Gokstad
More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the VIking chieftain buried inside and learning the truth about how he lived and died
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Features May/June 2014
America’s Chinatowns
Dozens of digs and collections are revealing the culture, diversity, and challenges of the first Chinese Americans
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Features May/June 2014
Searching for the Comanche Empire
In a deep gorge in New Mexico, archaeologists have discovered a unique site that tells the story of a nomadic confederacy's rise to power in the heart of North America
(Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC/Art Resource, NY)