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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

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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

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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 September/October 2012

    The 3,000 Buddhas

    The surprises of China’s largest sculpture cache

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  • Features July/August 2012

    Tomb of the Chantress

    A newly discovered burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings provides a rare glimpse into the life of an ancient Egyptian singer

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    (Courtesy © University of Basel Kings' Valley Project)
  • Features July/August 2012

    London 2012

    ARCHAEOLOGY and the Olympics

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    (Courtesy Olympic Delivery Authority)
  • Features May/June 2012

    Archaeology of Titanic

    It has been 100 years since it sank, and 27 years since it was rediscovered. Now the wreck of Titanic has finally become what it was always meant to be: an archaeological site.

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  • Features March/April 2012

    New Life for the Lion Man

    Using recently uncovered fragments, archaeologists may be able to finally piece together one of the world's oldest works of art

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  • Features May/June 2012

    The Story of a Site and a Project: Excavating Tel Kedesh

    More than a decade after they began working at an enormous mound in Israel's Upper Galilee region, two archaeologists reflect on their work

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