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Features July/August 2026
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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Remote Sanctuary at the Crossroads of Empire
Ancient Bactrians invented distinct ways to worship their gods 2,300 years ago in Tajikistan
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Italy’s Garden of Monsters
Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone sculptures?
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Setting Sail for Valhalla
Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife
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The Home of the Weather God
In northern Anatolia, archaeologists have discovered the source of Hittite royal power
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In Search of Lost Pharaohs
Anubis Mountain conceals the tombs of an obscure Egyptian dynasty
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Birds of a Feather
Intriguing rock art in the Four Corners reveals how the Basketmaker people drew inspiration from ducks 1,500 years ago
Courtesy John Pitts