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Features November/December 2025

Secrets of the Seven Wonders

How archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient world's most marvelous monuments

Amazon frieze from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

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Features November/December 2025

Acts of Faith

Evidence emerges of the day in 1562 when an infamous Spanish cleric tried to destroy Maya religion

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Temples to Tradition

A looted cache of bronzes compels archaeologists to explore Celtic sanctuaries across Burgundy

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The temple at the Gallo-Roman sanctuary in Couan in east-central France
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Features November/December 2025

Oasis Makers of Arabia

Researchers are just beginning to understand how people thrived in the desert of Oman some 5,000 years ago

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Beehive-shaped tombs at the site of Al-Ayn, Oman
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Searching for Venezuela’s Undiscovered Artists

Inspired by their otherworldly landscape, ancient people created a new rock art tradition

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José Miguel Pérez-Gómez

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    Ancient DNA Revolution

    How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past

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    Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia
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    Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis

    After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world

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    Courtesy Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece
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    Trees of the Sky World

    Why Australia’s Indigenous Wiradjuri people carved sacred symbols into trees to mark burials of their honored dead

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    Courtesy Caroline Spry
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    The People Before the Book

    A trove of papyri unearthed on the Egyptian island of Elephantine gives voice to an early Jewish community

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    Pompeii Style

    Inside the Roman houses where archaeologists continue to discover evocative new masterpieces

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    Courtesy Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei
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    Java's Megalithic Mountain

    Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors

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    Indonesia Java Gunung Padang Megalithic Site
    (Courtesy Lutfi Yondri)
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