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

A NEW CHAPTER

FROM OUR READERS

THE PATH NOT TAKEN

CUP OR CONE?

ROMAN RIVER BARGE

PREHISTORIC PLANT POTS

EGYPT’S TEMPLE OF CREATION

REINDEER HARVEST

ROMAN GAUL’S LITERATI

IMPERIAL SUGAR

VIKING MOLLUSK MASK

INDIAN KEY, FLORIDA

AROUND THE WORLD

Model Homes • A look inside miniature worlds created for the living, the dead, and the divine

HIMALAYAN HIGH ART • In a remote region of India, archaeologists trace 4,000 years of history through a vast collection of petroglyphs

WHAT HAPPENED IN GOYET CAVE? • New analysis of Neanderthal remains reveals surprisingly grim secrets

Pompeii’s House of Dionysian Delights • Vivid frescoes in an opulent dining room celebrate the wild rites of the wine god

Return to Serpent Mountain • Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert

Faya Palaeolandscape • Rewriting the early chapters of human history in Arabia

PEOPLE OF THE SACRED VOICE • The Ho-Chunk Nation safeguards a legacy that includes an underwater cache of ancient canoes

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of AMERICA

FROM THE FIELD

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