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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PAINTING BY ROMAN NUMERALS • ANDEAN CONDOR CULT, EGYPTIAN SNAKE REPELLENT, PALEO PALETTE…AND MUCH MORE

THE PARTHENON’S PAINT JOB

SIX CENTURIES OF THE CONDOR

SPELLS AGAINST SNAKES

PALEO PALETTE

MOHENJO-DARO’S BUDDHIST PAST

CUTS LIKE A SHARK

NEOLITHIC HONEY HUNTERS

WATCHDOG FOR THE AFTERLIFE

ROYAL RENDLESHAM

BEÇIN, TURKEY

AROUND THE WORLD

DISCOVERING A NEW NEOLITHIC WORLD • Excavations in southeastern Turkey are revolutionizing how archaeologists understand the monumental achievements of hunter-gatherers

THE WORLD’S FIRST NARRATIVE

Magic on the Road to Mecca • Artifacts left by pilgrims on the hajj illuminate the role of wonderworkers in Islamic practice

FREEDOM FORT • In eighteenth-century Spanish Florida, a militia composed of formerly enslaved Africans fought for their liberty

DIVINE LORDS OF THE ANDES • How a new generation of leaders claimed power in northern Peru by embracing cosmic connections to their ancestors

Breaking the Code of the Kushan Kings • High in the mountains of Tajikistan, the discovery of a first-century A.D. royal inscription was the key to deciphering a mysterious script

WHO WERE THE PEOPLE OF GREATER NICOYA? • Archaeologists are challenging long-held assumptions about Mesoamerica’s influence on Indigenous peoples to its south

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