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Features September/October 2025
How to Build a Medieval Castle
Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?
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Spirit Cave Connection
The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people
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Here Comes the Sun
On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows
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Myth of the Golden Dragon
Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty
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Remote Sanctuary at the Crossroads of Empire
Ancient Bactrians invented distinct ways to worship their gods 2,300 years ago in Tajikistan
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Features November 1, 2011
The Pre-Motor City
As Detroit paves a new economic road forward, an archaeologist investigates its industrial beginnings
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Features September 1, 2011
Translating Maya History
ome of the most important clues that led to deciphering ancient Maya glyphs came from the carved stone monuments at Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan. In 1960, art historian Tatiana Proskouriakoff published a systematic study of the glyphs on more than 40 large rectangular monuments called stelae that had been erected at Piedras Negras.
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Features September 1, 2011
Pirates of the Marine Silk Road
A shipwreck in the South China Sea advances China's emerging field of underwater ARCHAEOLOGY
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Features September 1, 2011
Pompeii's Dead Reimagined
An artist interprets the ancient city's most evocative artifacts.
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Features September 1, 2011
Defending a Jungle Kingdom
Newly uncovered fortifications reveal how ancient Maya rulers struggled for wealth and territory
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Features September 1, 2011
The Edible Seascape
A reevaluation of evidence along North America's western coast shows how its earliest inhabitants managed the sea's resources.
