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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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Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark

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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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Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum

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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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Excavations of the sanctuary in the village of Torbulok in southern
Gunvor Lindström/Excavations supported by the German Research Foundation

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  • Features January/February 2025

    Medieval England’s Coveted Cargo

    Archaeologists dive on a ship laden with marble bound for the kingdom’s grandest cathedrals

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    Lost Greek Tragedies Revived

    How a scholar discovered passages from a great Athenian playwright on a discarded papyrus

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    Clump of papyri in situ in a pit grave in the necropolis of Egypt's ancient city of Philadelphia
    Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
  • Features November/December 2024

    Let the Games Begin

    How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

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    © Tolga İldun
  • 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

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    Courtesy Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
  • Features November/December 2024

    Europe’s Lost Bronze Age Civilization

    Archaeologists have discovered more than 100 previously unknown megasites north of the Danube

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    Courtesy Barry Molloy
  • Features November/December 2024

    Chalice of Souls

    A Maya jade heirloom embodies an enduring sacred tradition

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    Jon G. Fuller, Jr./Alamy
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