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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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Spirit Cave Connection

The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people

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Howard Goldbaum/allaroundnevada.com

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Here Comes the Sun

On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows

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Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark

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Myth of the Golden Dragon

Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty

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Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum

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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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Excavations of the sanctuary in the village of Torbulok in southern
Gunvor Lindström/Excavations supported by the German Research Foundation

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  • Features March/April 2013

    Pirates of the Original Panama Canal

    Searching for the remains of Captain Henry Morgan's raid on Panama City

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    (Courtesy Captain Morgan Rum Co.)
  • Features March/April 2013

    A Soldier's Story

    The battle that changed European history, told through the lens of a young man’s remains

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    (Courtesy Dominique Bosquet)
  • Features January/February 2013

    Top 10 Discoveries of 2012

    ARCHAEOLOGY's editors reveal the year's most compelling stories

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  • Features January/February 2013

    Neolithic Europe's Remote Heart

    One thousand years of spirituality, innovation, and social development emerge from a ceremonial center on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney

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    Adam Stanford/Aerial Cam
  • Features January/February 2013

    The Water Temple of Inca-Caranqui

    Hydraulic engineering was the key to winning the hearts and minds of a conquered people

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    Caranqui-opener
    (Courtesy Tamara L. Bray)
  • Features November/December 2012

    The Maya Sense of Time

    As one Maya calendar reaches the end of a cycle, we take a look at how an ancient people understood their place in the cosmos

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    (Copyright Kenneth Garrett)
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