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Features March/April 2026
Model Homes
A look inside miniature worlds created for the living, the dead, and the divine
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Features March/April 2026
Pompeii's House of Dionysian Delights
Vivid frescoes in an opulent dining room celebrate the wild rites of the wine god
Features March/April 2026
Return to Serpent Mountain
Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert
Features March/April 2026
Himalayan High Art
In a remote region of India, archaeologists trace 4,000 years of history through a vast collection of petroglyphs
Features March/April 2026
What Happened in Goyet Cave?
New analysis of Neanderthal remains reveals surprisingly grim secrets
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Features September/October 2024
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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Features September/October 2024
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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Java's Megalithic Mountain
Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors
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The Assyrian Renaissance
Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals
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A Dynasty Born in Fire
How an upstart Maya king forged a new social order amid chaos
(Courtesy Proyecto Arqueológico Ucanal)