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.

IMPROVISE, ADAPT, AND OVERCOME

ARCHAEOLOGY

EARTHQUAKES AND ARCHAEOLOGY

FROM OUR READERS

DIGS & DISCOVERIES • PALEOLITHIC VEGAN CUISINE, COW HORN RX, POSEIDON’S LOST SANCTUARY…AND MUCH MORE

THE ROAD TO RUNES

GERMAN WISHING WELL

BON APPETIT!

MAYA MONKEY DIPLOMACY

PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE

SILK ROAD DETOUR

UPDATE: NOTRE DAME’S NOBILITY

NEOLITHIC MASS GRAVE MYSTERY

TAKING THE STAGE

THE SEA GOD’S SANCTUARY

VEN, SWEDEN

AROUND THE WORLD

LOST ROMAN RESORT • In the Bay of Naples, miles of ruins recall the splendor of ancient imperial holidays

REUSING THE PAST • Archaeologists discover how an embattled Assyrian king fortified Nineveh

Peru’s Great Urban Experiment • A millennium ago, the Chimú built a new way of life in the vast city of Chan Chan

WHERE THE COCA GROWS

Rituals of the Cattle Raiders • Rock art in the mountains of South Africa tells the story of how the Khoe and San peoples resisted enslavement

The Man in the Middle • How an ingenious royal official transformed Persian conquerors into proper Egyptian pharaohs

SPARTANS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI • Unearthing evidence of defiance and resilience in the homeland of the Chickasaw

AIA NEWS • Updates from the Archaeological Institute of America

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