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Ancient China’s “Pony Express”
Digs & Discoveries July/August 2026
Han Dynasty postal horses had hard lives but evocative names—meet Wandering Hawk, Podgy and Lumpy, and Mr. Red Horse
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928
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Unearthing the Outlanders
New discoveries challenge ancient prophecies about the peoples living on China’s borders three millennia ago
Courtesy Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
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Cat Trails
The National Palace Museum, Taipei, CC BY 4.0, www.npm.gov.tw
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Bridge to the Past
The Yellow River brought both prosperity and calamity to China’s dazzling medieval capital
Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994
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Egypt’s First Queen
How a trailblazing ruler pulled her realm back from the brink
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Secrets of the Serpent
Is a Native American origin story embedded in Ohio’s colossal earthwork?
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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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Tennis, Anyone?
Discovering the origins of the peculiar racket game that swept sixteenth-century France
© Denis Gliksman, Inrap