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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THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE • MEDIEVAL HERMIT CAVE, INDIAN ROYAL PALACE, RUSSIAN SILVER HOARD…AND MUCH MORE

TAMIL ROYAL PALACE

CAVE FIT FOR A KING… OR A HERMIT

BURN NOTICE

RUSSIAN RIVER SILVER

NEW NEIGHBORS

VIKING ROLES

A RIDE THROUGH THE COUNTRYSIDE

JAPAN’S GENETIC HISTORY

OPLONTIS, ITALY

AROUND THE WORLD

GOLDEN CITY • Luxor, Egypt

WORLD’S FIRST ARTISTS • Quesang Hot Spring, Tibet

EARLIEST LEATHERWORKERS • Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco

THE FIRST AMERICANS • White Sands, New Mexico

OLDEST ANIMAL ART • Northern Saudi Arabia

BRONZE AGE MAP • Leuhan, France

RARE BOUNDARY MARKER • Rome, Italy

WHEN THE VIKINGS CROSSED THE ATLANTIC • L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada

CRUSADER MASS GRAVE • Sidon, Lebanon

SLAVE TAG • Charleston, South Carolina

Under the Holy City • A long-running excavation in Jerusalem unearths evidence for two of the city’s least-known eras

AT FACE VALUE • Researchers are using new scientific methods to investigate how artists in Roman Egypt customized portraits for the dead

A Brush With Genius • An unprecedented find in central China brings to life the early years of a master calligrapher

YAN’S ACOLYTE

TURNING SALT INTO GOLD • In the Austrian Alps, generations of miners toiled to extract the ancient world’s most valuable resource

TRANSFORMING THE ENCHANTED ISLES • Archaeologists uncover the remote archipelago’s forgotten human history

DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA • EXCAVATE ▪ EDUCATE ▪ ADVOCATE

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