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Features September/October 2025

How to Build a Medieval Castle

Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?

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Spirit Cave Connection

The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people

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Here Comes the Sun

On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows

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Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark

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Myth of the Golden Dragon

Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty

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Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum

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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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Excavations of the sanctuary in the village of Torbulok in southern
Gunvor Lindström/Excavations supported by the German Research Foundation

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    Assyrian Women of Letters

    4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets illuminate the personal lives of Mesopotamian businesswomen

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    When Lions Were King

    Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection

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    Ukraine's Lost Capital

    In 1708, Peter the Great destroyed Baturyn, a bastion of Cossack independence and culture

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    Africa's Merchant Kings

    The early Christian kingdom of Aksum was at the heart of a great maritime trading network

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    An Elegant Enigma

    The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck

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    (Courtesy Museum Kaapskil)
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    Rise of the Persian Princes

    In their grand capital Persepolis, Achaemenid rulers expressed their vision of a prosperous, multicultural empire

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