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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DIGS & DISCOVERIES • ROMAN MARBLE CUTTERS, ANGLO-SAXON GIANT, NEANDERTHAL HEARING…AND MUCH MORE
KALEIDOSCOPIC WALLS
FOR ETERNITY
MARYLAND’S FIRST FORT
SNAKE GUIDE
MAN OF THE MOMENT
KIWI COLONISTS
LEISURE SEEKERS
NEANDERTHAL HEARING
HEAD OF STATE
A TWISTED HOARD
CROWNING GLORY
HERODIAN HANGOUT
CHALCATZINGO, MEXICO
AROUND THE WORLD
SECRET RITES OF SAMOTHRACE • Reimagining the experience of initiation into an ancient Greek mystery cult
Winged Victory’s Vantage
WHO WERE THE SAMARITANS? • Investigating a once-powerful sect that has preserved its sacred traditions for millennia
Searching for the Fisher Kings • In the waters of southern Florida, the creative Calusa people forged a mighty empire
The Pursuit of Wellness • How the ancients attended to mind, body, and soul
BALANCE
APPEARANCE
BEAUTY
REST
PERSEVERANCE
COMMUNITY
EXERCISE
SELF-CARE
THE EQUESTRIAN’S CAVE • Recent discoveries in western Mongolia suggest that nomadic horsemen may have invented a revolutionary technology
LAND OF THE PICTS • New excavations reveal the truth behind the legend of these fearsome northern warriors
UNCOVERING TROY
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