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Italy’s Garden of  Monsters

Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone sculptures?

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Setting Sail for Valhalla

Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife

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Lost City of the Samurai

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles

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A Passion for Fruit

Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more

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An Egyptian Temple Reborn

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    The Sinking of the HMAS Sydney

    The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II), pride of the Australian navy, has long been a source of pain and bewilderment. In waters off Western Australia in late 1941, following a successful tour in the Mediterranean, the Sydney encountered a ship claiming to be a Dutch freighter—actually the HSK Kormoran, a German raider that had menaced merchant ships for months.

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    The Pacific Theater

    On June 15, 1944, a massive U.S. invasion fleet stormed the beaches of Saipan, the largest of the Mariana Islands.

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    London's Air-Raid Shelters and Lost Homes

    During the Spanish Civil War, German and Italian forces had used aerial bombing raids to aid Francisco Franco's Nationalist side. In the run-up to WWII, British officials were frightened by the prospect of those very same tactics, so the U.K. passed legislation to begin digging air-raid shelters.

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    (Courtesy Gabriel Moshenska)
  • Features May 1, 2011

    The Archaeology of Internment

    ARCHAEOLOGY, with its unique ability to discover details of daily life often left out of personal journals and official histories, is now being used to document the lives of WWII's interned, among them more than 100,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese, and millions of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, criminals, homosexuals, and political prisoners.

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    The POW Camp Made Famous by The Great Escape

    Designed to contain those who had already fled previous detainment, the German POW camp Stalag Luft III was built in the woods of modern-day Poland as far as possible from non-Axis territory.

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    The Early Days of Nuclear Warfare

    One of WWII's most infamous legacies is that it is the only war to have involved nuclear weapons.

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