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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 July/August 2024
Making a Roman Emperor
A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family’s rise to power in the late second century a.d.
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Rise and Fall of Tiwanaku
New dating techniques are unraveling the mystery of a sacred Andean city
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Features May/June 2024
Searching for Lost Cities
From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time
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Alexander the Great's Untold Story
Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king
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Discovering a New Neolithic World
Excavations in southeastern Turkey are revolutionizing how archaeologists understand the monumental achievements of hunter-gatherers
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Features March/April 2024
Freedom Fort
In eighteenth-century Spanish Florida, a militia composed of formerly enslaved Africans fought for their liberty
(Photo: Christopher LeClere)