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Features July/August 2026
Egypt's First Queen
How a trailblazing ruler pulled her realm back from the brink
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Secrets of the Serpent
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Slinging Insults
Greek and Roman soldiers fired pointed barbs at their enemies
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Inside Africa’s Houses of Stone
Archaeologists are rethinking how kings shared power beyond the great capitals of medieval Zimbabwe
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Discovering the origins of the peculiar racket game that swept sixteenth-century France
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Features November/December 2024
Chalice of Souls
A Maya jade heirloom embodies an enduring sacred tradition
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Exploring Ancient Persia’s Royal Fire Temple
At a remote lake in the mountains of Iran, archaeologists have identified the most revered Zoroastrian sanctuary
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Ancient DNA Revolution
How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past
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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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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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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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