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.
PUTTING THE ANCIENT WORLD ON THE MAP
ARCHAEOLOGY
PLUMBING, PAST AND PRESENT
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EPIC PROPORTIONS
OFF THE GRID • NANGULUWUR ROCK ART GALLERY, KAKADU NATIONAL PARK, AUSTRALIA
STABBED IN THE BACK
A FOX IN THE HOUSE
TIGRESS BY THE TAIL
FAMILY SECRETS
COLD WAR STORAGE
MARROW OF HUMANITY
MAYA BEEKEEPERS
ROMAN SOLDIER SCRIBBLES
UNDERSTANDING HORNET’S FATE
VIKING WARRIORESS
COLONIAL COOLING
TEMPLE OF THE FLAYED LORD
CELTIC CURIOSITY
SUBMERGED SCOTTISH FOREST
WORLD ROUNDUP
Mapping the Past • Exploring the genius and creativity of mapmakers through time
China’s Hidden City • Recent discoveries at an isolated northern settlement are challenging traditional narratives about the origins of Chinese civilization
INSIDE KING TUT’S TOMB • A decade of research offers a new look at the burial of Egypt’s most famous pharaoh
MEDIEVAL ENGLAND’S POWER MONASTERY • For nearly 1,000 years, monks on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne wielded unprecedented political and economic might
Scotland’s Holy Island
The Gospels of Harmony
BRINGING BACK MOCHE BADMINTON • How reviving an ancient ritual game gave an archaeologist new insight into the lives of ancient Peruvians
LIFE IN A BUSY OASIS • Natural resources from land and sea sustained a thriving Jewish community for more than a millennium
The Year of Troy
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DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA • EXCAVATE ▪ EDUCATE ▪ ADVOCATE
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