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

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DIGS & DISCOVERIES • NUBIAN GIRAFFE ART, PERSIAN WATER GODDESS, CANADIAN BODY SNATCHERS…AND MUCH MORE

RUBBER BALL RECIPE

BLACK MAGIC SEEDS

A FRIEND FOR HERCULES

STICKING THEIR NECKS OUT

A FORTRESS SANCTUARY

FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH

MEDICAL MALFEASANCE

NEOLITHIC PIERCINGS

THE SONG IN THE STONE

LIKE CATS AND DOGS

CHUMASH PAINTED CAVE STATE HISTORIC PARK, CALIFORNIA

AROUND THE WORLD

A DYNASTY BORN IN FIRE • How an upstart Maya king forged a new social order amid chaos

Java’s Megalithic Mountain • Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors

The Assyrian Renaissance • Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals

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Making a Roman Emperor • A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family’s rise to power in the late second century A.D.

RISE AND FALL OF TIWANAKU • New dating techniques are unraveling the mystery of a sacred Andean city

A WEST AFRICAN KINGDOM’S ROOTS • Excavations in Benin City reveal a renowned realm’s deep history

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