January/February 2020 Issue

Features From the Issue

  • Features

    Top 10 Discoveries of 2019

    ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds

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  • Features

    Japan’s Sacred Island

    For centuries, rituals performed on an isolated island played a key role in the emergence of Japan

  • Features

    Temple of the White Thunderbird

    Excavators in southern Iraq have uncovered the long-lost home of the powerful Sumerian warrior god

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    Friend? Roman? Countryman?

    A rare Iron Age burial in southern England reflects the close connections between Britain and Gaul two millennia ago

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    Inca Power Politics

    Ruins of a half-built Andean capital are evidence of how the Inca controlled their vast empire—until the Spanish arrived

Letter from Ireland

Letter from Ireland

The Sorrows of Spike Island

Millions were forced to flee during the Great Famine­—some of those left behind were condemned to Ireland’s most notorious prison

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(Courtesy Barra O’Donnabhain)

Artifact

(Alexander Frisch, Museen der Stadt Regensburg)

Digs & Discoveries

Off the Grid

Off the Grid January/February 2020

Malinalco, Mexico

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(Cavan/Alamy Stock Photo)

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