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 • SACRED AZTEC STARFISH, PICTISH PICTIONARY, AUSTRALIA’S BLUE PERIOD…AND MUCH MORE
ALPINE CRYSTAL HUNTERS
DON’T GIVE AN INCH
AUSTRALIA’S BLUE PERIOD
ROMANS GO DUTCH
SURVEYING SAMNIUM
HEART OF THE MATTER
MEXICAN STAR POWER
PICTISH PICTOGRAMS
LINKING THE LINEAGES
THE AVARS ADVANCE
HEROD’S FANCY FIXTURES
OZETTE, WASHINGTON
AROUND THE WORLD
REDISCOVERING EGYPT’S GOLDEN DYNASTY • How King Tutankhamun’s family forever changed the land of the Nile
THE DIVINE KING AND HIS QUEEN
WHO WAS TUT’S MOTHER?
TUT THE ANTIQUARIAN
THE PHARAOH’S DAUGHTERS
WHO CAME NEXT?
A FOREIGN AFFAIR
CARIBBEAN CONNECTIONS • Using pottery to trace the sea routes of early island settlers
SICILY’S SACRED WATERS • A Phoenician ritual pool on a small island may have been the center of an ancient astronomical observatory
1,000 FATHOMS DOWN • In the Gulf of Mexico, archaeologists believe they have identified a nineteenth-century whaling ship crewed by a diverse group of New Englanders
MARITIME MAGNATE
PASSAGE TO FREEDOM
Arabian Avenues of the Dead • Mysterious stone tombs mark a previously unknown network of pathways across a vast desert landscape
BERLIN’S MEDIEVAL ORIGINS • In the midst of modern construction, archaeologists search for evidence of the city’s earliest days
DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA
AIA LAUNCHES REDESIGNED NATIONAL LECTURE PROGRAM
DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA
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