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Top 10 Discoveries of 2024

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Features January/February 2025

Dancing Days of the Maya

In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions

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Photograph by R. Słaboński

Features November/December 2024

Let the Games Begin

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

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Features November/December 2024

The Many Faces of the Kingdom of Shu

Thousands of fantastical bronzes are beginning to reveal the secrets of a legendary Chinese dynasty

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Courtesy Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology

Features September/October 2024

Ancient DNA Revolution

How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past

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  • London 2012 July/August 2012

    The Romans: Lost and Found

    Roman evidence

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    (Courtesy The Museum of London and Pre-Construct Archaeology)
  • London 2012 July/August 2012

    A 19th-century Speed Boat

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    (Courtesy The Museum of London and Pre-Construct Archaeology)
  • Features July/August 2012

    Vasa's Curious Imbalance

    As their focus shifts from preservation to documentation, researchers are learning new lessons from the majestic Vasa— a warship monumental in its ambition, its failure, and its role in maritime archaeology

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  • Features May/June 2012

    Archaeology of Titanic

    It has been 100 years since it sank, and 27 years since it was rediscovered. Now the wreck of Titanic has finally become what it was always meant to be: an archaeological site.

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  • Features March/April 2012

    New Life for the Lion Man

    Using recently uncovered fragments, archaeologists may be able to finally piece together one of the world's oldest works of art

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  • Features May/June 2012

    The Story of a Site and a Project: Excavating Tel Kedesh

    More than a decade after they began working at an enormous mound in Israel's Upper Galilee region, two archaeologists reflect on their work

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