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Features July/August 2025

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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Painted lotus-leaf capitals after cleaning in the entrance hall of the temple of Khnum, Esna, Egypt
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  • Features July/August 2023

    Africa's Merchant Kings

    The early Christian kingdom of Aksum was at the heart of a great maritime trading network

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  • Features July/August 2023

    An Elegant Enigma

    The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck

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  • Features July/August 2023

    Rise of the Persian Princes

    In their grand capital Persepolis, Achaemenid rulers expressed their vision of a prosperous, multicultural empire

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  • Features March/April 2023

    The Ancient Promise of Water

    How people of the past harnessed the power of the world’s most precious resource

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  • Features May/June 2023

    Peru's Great Urban Experiment

    A millennium ago, the Chimú built a new way of life in the vast city of Chan Chan

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  • Features May/June 2023

    The Man in the Middle

    How an ingenious royal official transformed Persian conquerors into proper Egyptian pharaohs

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