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Features January/February 2026
Top 10 Discoveries of 2025
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds
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Features January/February 2026
The Cost of Doing Business
Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices
Features January/February 2026
The Birds of Amarna
An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace
Features January/February 2026
Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica
Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture
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Stone Gods and Monsters
3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes
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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
(Pasquale Sorrentino)