ARCHAEOLOGY

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine offers readers incisive reporting, vivid storytelling, compelling photography – and the latest news from around the globe – all devoted to exploring the world’s ancient past. Whether reporting from a dive on an Arctic shipwreck, trekking through Afghanistan, or digging just beneath Beirut, ARCHAEOLOGY’s editors and writers bring readers the science, and the magic, of archaeological discovery.

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ARCHAEOLOGY

SAVING THE SEA

FROM OUR READERS

LAW & ORDER • HERCULES IN HIS CUPS, ANCIENT AIR FRESHENER, NORDIC METAL MASTERS…AND MUCH MORE

AFRICAN SWORDCRAFT

CRYPTO POWER

NORDIC METAL

DEAD DRUNK

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

MASTER OF PUPPETS

ANCIENT AIR FRESHENER

A DAY AT THE HUNT

CHINESE FRONTIER FORT

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

NECROPOLIS OF PANTALICA, ITALY

AROUND THE WORLD

Spirit Cave Connection • The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people

CHACO CANYON ANCESTORS

Here Comes the Sun • On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows

HOW TO BUILD A MEDIEVAL CASTLE • Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?

MYTH OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON • Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty

REMOTE SANCTUARY AT THE CROSSROADS OF EMPIRE • Ancient Bactrians invented distinct ways to worship their gods 2,300 years ago in Tajikistan

SEARCHING FOR WASHINGTONIA • How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of AMERICA

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