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Features November/December 2024
Let the Games Begin
How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses
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Features November/December 2024
The Many Faces of the Kingdom of Shu
Thousands of fantastical bronzes are beginning to reveal the secrets of a legendary Chinese dynasty
Features September/October 2024
Ancient DNA Revolution
How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past
Features September/October 2024
Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis
After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world
Features July/August 2024
Java's Megalithic Mountain
Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors
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Features January/February 2012
The Truth Behind the Tablets
The rush to document thousands of ancient texts before they are sent back to Iran, or sold, reveals the daily workings of the Persian Empire.
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Features January/February 2012
A Society's Sacrifice
Why the Chimú people of ancient Peru offered what was most valuable to them
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Features January/February 2012
Mountaintop Rescue
Archaeology, coal, and activism collide in the Appalachian Mountains at the site of America's largest labor conflict.
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Features January 1, 2011
Hunter-Gatherer Landscape - California
Construction of vast solar farms in the deserts of southeastern California is threatening to permanently erase prehistoric Native American sites.
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Features January 1, 2011
Undiscovery of the Year - Clovis Comet
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Features January 1, 2011
The Tomb of Hecatomnus - Milas, Turkey
Turkish authorities have arrested looters who are suspected of tunneling their way into one of antiquity's most intriguing tombs. The looters reached the underground chamber, which lies below a temple to Zeus near the town of Milas, by digging in from a nearby house and an adjacent barn.
