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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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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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Features January 1, 2011
The Fight for Ancient Sicily
Rewriting one of the ancient world's most dramatic battlefield accounts
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Features January 1, 2011
The Journey to El Norte
How archaeologists are documenting the silent migration that is transforming America
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Features January 1, 2011
MEXICO
he Young Man of Chan Hol was interred in a cave in the Yucatán more than 10,000 years ago, and there he stayed, even as sea levels rose and the cave flooded.
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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
(Image from the Art Renewal Center website, www.artrenewal.org)