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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SAVE THE DATES • BRONZE AGE SPICES, ANCIENT ROMAN CURRENCY CRISIS, SAILING IN SUMER…AND MUCH MORE

SPICE HUNTERS

SUSPICIOUS SILVER

A CIVIL WAR BOMB

THE GREAT MAIZE MIGRATION

MUMMY MAKERS

DIGNITY OF THE DEAD

SAILING IN SUMER

SPEAK, MEMORIES

THE MAYA COUNT BEGINS

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AROUND THE WORLD

JOURNEYS OF THE PYRAMID BUILDERS • The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor

GIZA’S LAYOUT

CITY POLITICS • In sixteenth-century Mexico, the democratic city-state of Tlaxcallan thrived in the face of Aztec imperialism

Beauty Under Bruges • Vibrant paintings discovered in forgotten crypts reflect the rise of Belgium’s first great medieval city

A Ticket to the World’s Fair • Excavating the hidden traces of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

LEGACY OF THE WHITE CITY

A WORLD OF FAIRS

THE PHILISTINE AGE • Archaeologists are reconsidering the origins and history of a much-maligned ancient people

SOARING WITH STONE EAGLES • A complex of Native American rock mounds bears witness to the endurance of ancient traditions

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