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Features January/February 2026
Top 10 Discoveries of 2025
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds
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Features January/February 2026
The Cost of Doing Business
Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices
Features January/February 2026
The Birds of Amarna
An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace
Features January/February 2026
Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica
Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture
Features January/February 2026
Stone Gods and Monsters
3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes
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Features September/October 2013
Wolf Rites of Winter
Archaeologists digging a Bronze Age site on the Russian steppes are using evidence from language and mythology to understand a remarkable discovery
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Features September/October 2013
Tomb of the Vulture Lord
A king’s burial reveals a pivotal moment in Maya history
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Features July/August 2013
The First Vikings
Two remarkable ships may show that the Viking storm was brewing long before their assault on England and the continent
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Features July/August 2013
Miniature Pyramids of Sudan
Archaeologists excavating on the banks of the Nile have uncovered a necropolis where hundreds of small pyramids once stood
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Features May/June 2013
On the Trail of the Mimbres
Archaeologists are tracking the disappearance of a remarkable type of pottery to rewrite the story of a culture’s decline
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