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.

HOUSES OF THE HOLY

ARCHAEOLOGY

LEARNING TOGETHER

FROM OUR READERS

DIGS & DISCOVERIES • SHACKLETON’S LAST SHIP, VIKING DENTAL DECOR, HERMIT’S BARROW BUNGALOW…AND MUCH MORE

TOOTHY GRIN

SEAHENGE SINGS

GALLIC STEEDS

SHACKLETON’S LAST TRY

LOCATION IS EVERYTHING

MOVING DAY

COSMIC RAY CALENDAR

A NIGHTCAP FOR THE AGES

FROM HUNTER TO MARATHONER

BARRANCAS RIVER VALLEY, ARGENTINA

AROUND THE WORLD

HUNTING FOR THE LOST TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS • After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world

Trees of the Sky World • Why Australia’s Indigenous Wiradjuri people carved sacred symbols into trees to mark burials of their honored dead

The People Before the Book • A trove of papyri unearthed on the Egyptian island of Elephantine gives voice to an early Jewish community

Ancient DNA Revolution • How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past

MAYA POWER PLANTS • Yaxnohcah, Mexico

THE EMPIRE’S GENOME • Rome and environs, Italy

WILD AND WOOLLY ANCESTORS • Washington State and British Columbia, United States and Canada

A BRONZE AGE FAMILY TREE • Nepluyevsky, Russia

COFFEE’S EPIC JOURNEY • Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia

DANISH TURNOVERS • Denmark

MODELING ASSYRIAN DNA • Nimrud, Iraq

A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND • Cambridgeshire, England

ANCESTORS OF THE BLACKFOOT • North American High Plains

POMPEII STYLE • Inside the Roman houses where archaeologists continue to discover evocative new masterpieces

STRONGHOLDS OF THE TAIGA • Beginning 8,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the forests of northern Russia built some of the world’s earliest fortified settlements

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

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