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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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The Cost of Doing Business
Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices
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The Birds of Amarna
An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace
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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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Ahead of Their Time
Excavations reveal the surprising sophistication of Copper Age villagers in southwestern Iran 6,000 years ago
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Features January/February 2025
Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds
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Features January/February 2025
Dancing Days of the Maya
In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions
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Unearthing a Forgotten Roman Town
A stretch of Italian farmland concealed one of the small cities that powered the empire
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Medieval England’s Coveted Cargo
Archaeologists dive on a ship laden with marble bound for the kingdom’s grandest cathedrals
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Lost Greek Tragedies Revived
How a scholar discovered passages from a great Athenian playwright on a discarded papyrus
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