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How to Build a Medieval Castle

Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?

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Features September/October 2025

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 May 1, 2011

    North Korea's Full Moon Tower

    A joint project between the two Koreas searches for their shared history

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  • Features March 1, 2011

    A Chauvet Primer

    After the cave paintings were discovered in December 1994, the first question archaeologists faced was, how old are they?

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  • Features March 1, 2011

    Werner Herzog on 3-D, Cavemen, and the Scent of a Cave Bear

    Last March, preeminent filmmaker Werner Herzog was given unprecedented access to Chauvet Cave in southeastern France to film the site's Paleolithic art.

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  • Features March 1, 2011

    Reading the Yellow River

    Preserved by centuries of flood-borne silt, a rural landscape offers a new look at the Han Dynasty

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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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    (Courtesy Angiolina Abugattas)
  • 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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