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Features November/December 2026
Kingdom of Fortresses
How diverse and far-flung Iron Age chiefdoms united to challenge the Assyrian Empire
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Features November/December 2026
A Tomb of One’s Own
Life behind the scenes in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
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Outfitting Viking Voyagers
In Denmark, archaeologists have discovered a massive factory that equipped an innovative fleet
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Stone Age Stargazers
Did artists 12,000 years ago illuminate a cave in Tajikistan with their vision of the Milky Way?
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Unearthing the Outlanders
New discoveries challenge ancient prophecies about the peoples living on China’s borders three millennia ago
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Features November/December 2015
Where There's Smoke...
Learning to see the ARCHAEOLOGY under our feet
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Features September/October 2015
Golden House of an Emperor
How archaeologists are saving Nero’s fabled pleasure palace
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Features September/October 2015
New York's Original Seaport
Traces of the city’s earliest beginnings as an economic and trading powerhouse lie just beneath the streets of South Street Seaport
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Features September/October 2015
Cultural Revival
Excavations near a Yup’ik village in Alaska are helping its people reconnect with the epic stories and practices of their ancestors
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Features July/August 2015
The Story of the Horse
How its unique role in human culture transformed history
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Features July/August 2015
In Search of a Philosopher’s Stone
At a remote site in Turkey, archaeologists have found fragments of the ancient world’s most massive inscription
(Martin Bachmann)