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.

A WORLD OF SURPRISES

DID JESUS EAT QUICHE?

FROM OUR READERS • We received many letters about “Eat More Spore” in our November/December 2018 issue. We salute our adventurous readers—and those who wish to be—who shared their experiences with us.

THE CASE OF THE STOLEN SUMERIAN ANTIQUITIES

OFF THE GRID • OSSABAW ISLAND, GEORGIA

ANCIENT AMAZONIAN CHOCOLATIERS

STOP • AN IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM OUR PUBLISHER

FIT FOR A PRINCE

WHEN THINGS GOT CHEESY

FUNNY BUSINESS

DOUBLE VISION

RAISE A TOAST TO THE AUROCHS

A LOST SOCK’S SECRETS

LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW

BATH TILES

INDIA’S ANONYMOUS ARTISTS

NO RAINBOW REQUIRED

PASSAGE TO THE AFTERLIFE

WORLD ROUNDUP

TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2018

A DARK AGE BEACON • Long shrouded in Arthurian lore, an island off the coast of Cornwall may have been the remote stronghold of early British kings

WAS THERE A REAL KING ARTHUR?

What Sank San Diego? • Was it a German torpedo, a mine, or saboteurs that sent this imposing World War I ship to the bottom of the Atlantic?

THE MAYA ANIMAL KINGDOM • Captive big cats might be key to understanding ancient Mesoamerica’s complex network of culture and commerce

CAMBODIA’S CAVE OF BRIDGES • A vast mountainside cave in the midst of lush farmland conceals at least 70,000 years of Southeast Asian prehistory

OF CESSPITS AND SEWERS • Exploring the unlikely history of sanitation management in medieval Holland

2018 THE YEAR OF TROY

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DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA • EXCAVATE ▪ EDUCATE ▪ ADVOCATE

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