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Egypt's First Queen
How a trailblazing ruler pulled her realm back from the brink
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Secrets of the Serpent
Is a Native American origin story embedded in Ohio’s colossal earthwork?
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Slinging Insults
Greek and Roman soldiers fired pointed barbs at their enemies
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Inside Africa’s Houses of Stone
Archaeologists are rethinking how kings shared power beyond the great capitals of medieval Zimbabwe
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Tennis, Anyone?
Discovering the origins of the peculiar racket game that swept sixteenth-century France
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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.
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Features January 1, 2011
Allianoi - Turkey
A reservoir created by a new hydroelectric dam in western Turkey will soon permanently flood the ruins of the Roman-era bath complex of Allianoi.
