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.

AN INSPIRED LIFE

ARCHAEOLOGY

NEW VOICES

FROM OUR READERS

POETIC LICENSE

GONE FISHING

A SHINING EXAMPLE

OLIVEOPOLIS

KUBLAI KHAN’S SINKING AMBITIONS

THE TREASURER’S TOMB

TUDOR TRAVELERS

WHO DRANK FROM NESTOR’S CUP?

REFLECTING THE PAST

MURDER WILL OUT

CITÂNIA DE BRITEIROS, PORTUGAL

AROUND THE WORLD

THE LAST KING OF BABYLON • Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s most eccentric ruler

ANCIENT ANTIQUARIANS

PARADISE LOST • Archaeologists in Nova Scotia are uncovering evidence of thriving seventeenth-century French colonists and their brutal expulsion

FROM ACADIAN TO CAJUN

SET IN STONE • New evidence reveals the surprising reach and influence of a little-known Mesoamerican culture

Exploring Notre Dame’s Hidden Past • The devastating 2019 fire is providing an unprecedented look at the secrets of the great cathedral

LAYERS OF HISTORY

A Monumental Imperial Biography • How Constantine’s architects pieced together the past to create a new vision in the heart of Rome

UNCOVERING PYLOS

MAPPING A VANISHED LANDSCAPE • Evidence of a lost Mesolithic world lies deep beneath the dark waters of the North Sea

Photo Credits

DISPATCHES

ARTIFACT