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Egypt's First Queen
How a trailblazing ruler pulled her realm back from the brink
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Slinging Insults
Greek and Roman soldiers fired pointed barbs at their enemies
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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 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
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Features August 15, 2007
The Language of the Arena
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Features November 1, 2006
A Community's Roots
(National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource)