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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 November/December 2013
Life on the Inside
Open for only six weeks toward the end of the Civil War, Camp Lawton preserves a record of wartime prison life
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Vengeance on the Vikings
Mass burials in England attest to a turbulent time, and perhaps a notorious medieval massacre
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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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