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Pompeii's House of Dionysian Delights

Vivid frescoes in an opulent dining room celebrate the wild rites of the wine god

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Frescoed panels in the House of the Thiasus portray a satyr (left) and a woman (right)
Courtesy Archaeological Park of Pompeii

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Return to Serpent Mountain

Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert

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Himalayan High Art

In a remote region of India, archaeologists trace 4,000 years of history through a vast collection of petroglyphs

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What Happened in Goyet Cave?

New analysis of Neanderthal remains reveals surprisingly grim secrets

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The Third Cave, one of the galleries in a cave system in central Belgium known as the Goyet Caves
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  • Features May 1, 2011

    Unexploded War Relics

    On February 6, 2011, thousands of residents of the Boulogne-Billancourt community in west Paris were awoken at dawn and asked to leave their homes for more than four hours while French military explosive experts defused a nearly 1,000-pound bomb found in their neighborhood.

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    YP-389 and the Battle of the Atlantic

    In the first half of 1942, while most of the U.S. Navy was occupied in the Pacific, German U-boats stalked the Atlantic coast.

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    Archaeology of World War II

    Years after the end of the world's greatest conflict, new research reveals the true nature and extent of its impact

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    Video: Operation Saipan

    An underwater trail of the submerged archaeological evidence of the Battle of Saipan, Marianas Islands, one of the turning points in the Pacific theater of operation

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    The Story of YP-389

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    Slideshow: The Wreck of the HMAS Sydney

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