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Features May/June 2026
The Unexpected World of the Odyssey
Discovering the surprising inspirations behind Homer’s great tales of the Trojan War
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Pioneers of Lakefront Living
Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on stilts
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The Last Maya Kingdom
On the shores of a lake in Guatemala, the Itzá people defied the Spanish for nearly 200 years
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Art for the Ages
A surreal style of painting endured for 4,000 years in the canyonlands of West Texas
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Bridge to the Past
The Yellow River brought both prosperity and calamity to China’s dazzling medieval capital By Ling Xin
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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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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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Features January 1, 2011
Hunter-Gatherer Landscape - California
Construction of vast solar farms in the deserts of southeastern California is threatening to permanently erase prehistoric Native American sites.
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Features January 1, 2011
Undiscovery of the Year - Clovis Comet
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Features January 1, 2011
Child Burials - Carthage, Tunisia
A team led by University of Pittsburgh physical anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz has refuted the long-held claim that the Carthaginians carried out large-scale child sacrifice from the eighth to second centuries b.c.
