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Features September/October 2024
Ancient DNA Revolution
How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past
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Features September/October 2024
Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis
After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world
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Java's Megalithic Mountain
Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors
Features July/August 2024
The Assyrian Renaissance
Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals
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Searching for Lost Cities
From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time
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Features July 1, 2011
Rebuilding Beirut
"This city is one of those that must live and relive, come what may," wrote the nineteenth-century French geographer Élisée Reclus. "The conquerors pass on and the city is reborn behind them."
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Features July 1, 2011
Assisi's Roman Villa
A surprise discovery under a medieval Italian town square.
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Features July 1, 2011
The Nok of Nigeria
Unlocking the secrets of West Africa's earliest known civilization
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Features May 1, 2011
YP-389 and the Battle of the Atlantic
In the first half of 1942, while most of the U.S. Navy was occupied in the Pacific, German U-boats stalked the Atlantic coast.
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Features May 1, 2011
Archaeology of World War II
Years after the end of the world's greatest conflict, new research reveals the true nature and extent of its impact
