May/June 2023 Issue

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    Peru's Great Urban Experiment

    A millennium ago, the Chimú built a new way of life in the vast city of Chan Chan

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    (Alamy)
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    The Man in the Middle

    How an ingenious royal official transformed Persian conquerors into proper Egyptian pharaohs

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    (© The Trustees of the British Museum)
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    Lost Roman Resort

    In the Bay of Naples, miles of ruins recall the splendor of ancient imperial holidays

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    Reusing the Past

    Archaeologists discover how an embattled Assyrian king fortified Nineveh

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    Rituals of the Cattle Raiders

    Rock art in the mountains of South Africa tells the story of how the Khoe and San peoples resisted enslavement

Letter from the American Southeast

Letter from the American Southeast

Spartans of the Lower Mississippi

Unearthing evidence of defiance and resilience in the homeland of the Chickasaw

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(Kimberly Wescott and Brad Lieb, Chickasaw Native Explorers Program 2015)

Artifact

Artifacts

Greek Kylix Fragments

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(Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)

Digs & Discoveries

Off the Grid

Off the Grid May/June 2023

Ven, Sweden

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Courtesy The Tycho Brahe Museum

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Slideshow: Italy's Underwater Sculpture Garden

The town of Baiae in southern Italy was a playground for ancient Rome’s rich and famous, until it slowly sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Pozzuoli. For the past four decades, archaeologists have explored the ruins of the town’s grand villas, including a nymphaeum in which once stood marble statues of gods, heroes, and members of the imperial family. The original statues have been moved to a local museum to preserve them, and today, divers can visit the site and see replicas of the statues.