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Features September/October 2026
The Music of Time
Tuning in to the sounds of the ancient world
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Features September/October 2026
A Change in Fashion
Hoards of lavish gold and silver neck rings buried on an English hill reflect dramatic social change
Features September/October 2026
Cultivating Fields of Stone
Peru’s ancient farmers used intricate rock maps to plan for the future
Features September/October 2026
Where Was Ancient Egypt Born?
Archaeologists are reimagining a time before the first pharaohs
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2,000 Years Under the Sea
The story of Greece’s famed Antikythera wreck is finally being revealed
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Features July/August 2013
Miniature Pyramids of Sudan
Archaeologists excavating on the banks of the Nile have uncovered a necropolis where hundreds of small pyramids once stood
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Features May/June 2013
On the Trail of the Mimbres
Archaeologists are tracking the disappearance of a remarkable type of pottery to rewrite the story of a culture’s decline
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Features May/June 2013
Haunt of the Resurrection Men
A forgotten graveyard, the dawn of modern medicine, and the hard life in 19th-century London
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Features May/June 2013
The Kings of Kent
The surprising discovery of an Anglo-Saxon feasting hall in the village of Lyminge is offering a new view of the lives of these pagan kings
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Features March/April 2013
Archaeology Island
More than 4,000 years of history in only 16 square miles
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Features March 1, 2013
History's 10 Greatest Wrecks...
(Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Library)