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Features May/June 2025
Lost City of the Samurai
Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles
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Dancing Days of the Maya
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Features January 1, 2011
1608 Church - Jamestown, Virginia
Archaeologists searching for a men's barracks at Jamestown, Virginia, site of the first permanent English colony in the New World, have found instead the remains of the earliest Protestant church in North America.
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Features March 1, 2009
Trash Talk
Sorting through a mountain of pottery to track the Roman oil trade
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Features August 15, 2007
The Language of the Arena
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Features November 1, 2006
A Community's Roots
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Features July 1, 2005
Plain of Jars
(Jerry Redfern)