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The Cost of Doing Business

Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices

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A digital reconstruction shows how the Civil Basilica in the city of Aphrodisias in southwestern Anatolia would have appeared with the Edict of Maximum Prices inscribed on its facade.
Ece Savaş and Philip Stinson

Features January/February 2026

The Birds of Amarna

An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/ Rogers Fund, 1930

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Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica

Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture

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Courtesy Claudia I. Alvarado-León

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Stone Gods and Monsters

3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes

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The ritual center of Chavín de Huántar flourished in northern Peru.
Courtesy John Rick

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  • 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)
  • Features November/December 2012

    Zeugma After the Flood

    New excavations continue to tell the story of an ancient city at the crossroads between east and west

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    Photo of Belkıs/Zeugma
    (Hasan Yelken/Images & Stories)
  • Features September/October 2012

    Final Resting Place of an Outlaw

    Archaeological and forensic detective work lead to the remains of Ned Kelly, one of Australia’s most celebrated, reviled, and polarizing historical figures

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