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Features November/December 2025
Secrets of the Seven Wonders
How archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient world's most marvelous monuments
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Acts of Faith
Evidence emerges of the day in 1562 when an infamous Spanish cleric tried to destroy Maya religion
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Temples to Tradition
A looted cache of bronzes compels archaeologists to explore Celtic sanctuaries across Burgundy
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Oasis Makers of Arabia
Researchers are just beginning to understand how people thrived in the desert of Oman some 5,000 years ago
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Searching for Venezuela’s Undiscovered Artists
Inspired by their otherworldly landscape, ancient people created a new rock art tradition
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Features November/December 2014
Dawn of a Thousand Suns
As the beginning of the Atomic Age fades into history, archaeologists work to document a time of uncertainty and experimentation
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Features November/December 2014
The Neolithic Toolkit
How experimental ARCHAEOLOGY is showing that Europe's first farmers were also its first carpenters
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Features November/December 2014
The Ongoing Saga of Sutton Hoo
A region long known as a burial place for Anglo-Saxon kings is now yielding a new look at the world they lived in
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America, in the Beginning
Archaeologists continue their search for evidence of how the vast, once-uninhabited regions of the New World came to be populated
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Features September/October 2014
Erbil Revealed
How the first excavations in an ancient city are supporting its claim as the oldest continuously inhabited place in the world
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Castaways
Illegally enslaved and then marooned on remote Tromelin Island for fifteen years, with only ARCHAEOLOGY to tell their story
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