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.

TO RULE AND BE RULED

ARCHAEOLOGY

HELPING ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT RISK

FROM OUR READERS

DIGS & DISCOVERIES • MEDIEVAL FOLDING CHAIR, ALABAMA CANAL, KOREA’S MINIATURE MASTERPIECE…AND MUCH MORE

LEMBAH BUJANG, MALAYSIA

AROUND THE WORLD

A Tale of Two Abbeys • How entrepreneurial monks shaped the landscape of medieval England

SILENT SPEECH

SMALL BUT MIGHTY

Priestess, Poet, Politician • 4,000 years ago, the world’s first author composed verses that helped forge the Akkadian Empire

Mexico’s Butterfly Warriors • The annual monarch migration may have been a sacred event for the people of Mesoamerica

BRONZE AGE URBAN EXPERIMENT • Archaeologists debate who ruled the cities of the ancient Indus Valley

WHO WAS THE PRIEST-KING?

Magical Mystery Door • An investigation of an Egyptian sacred portal reveals a history of renovation and deception

MURDER ISLANDS • The doomed voyage of a seventeenth-century merchant ship ended in mutiny and mayhem

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