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Features July/August 2026
Egypt's First Queen
How a trailblazing ruler pulled her realm back from the brink
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Secrets of the Serpent
Is a Native American origin story embedded in Ohio’s colossal earthwork?
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Slinging Insults
Greek and Roman soldiers fired pointed barbs at their enemies
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Inside Africa’s Houses of Stone
Archaeologists are rethinking how kings shared power beyond the great capitals of medieval Zimbabwe
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Tennis, Anyone?
Discovering the origins of the peculiar racket game that swept sixteenth-century France
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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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Features September/October 2014
Castaways
Illegally enslaved and then marooned on remote Tromelin Island for fifteen years, with only ARCHAEOLOGY to tell their story
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Features July/August 2014
Under Mexico City
Beneath the capital's busy streets, archaeologists are discovering the buried world of the Aztecs
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Features July/August 2014
The Tomb of the Silver Hands
Long-buried evidence of an Etruscan noble family
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Features July/August 2014
Revisiting the Gokstad
More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the VIking chieftain buried inside and learning the truth about how he lived and died
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Features May/June 2014
America’s Chinatowns
Dozens of digs and collections are revealing the culture, diversity, and challenges of the first Chinese Americans
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)