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Features September/October 2026
The Music of Time
Tuning in to the sounds of the ancient world
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A Change in Fashion
Hoards of lavish gold and silver neck rings buried on an English hill reflect dramatic social change
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Cultivating Fields of Stone
Peru’s ancient farmers used intricate rock maps to plan for the future
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Where Was Ancient Egypt Born?
Archaeologists are reimagining a time before the first pharaohs
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2,000 Years Under the Sea
The story of Greece’s famed Antikythera wreck is finally being revealed
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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.
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Features January 1, 2011
Underwater Shipwrecks - Massachusetts Bay
Historic shipwrecks all over the world are severely damaged by bottom trawling, a fishing method that involves hauling huge nets across the ocean floor.
