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.

BRIDGING THE DISTANCES

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THINKING ABOUT TRASH

FROM OUR READERS

A NEW DAY FOR THE ANCESTORS’ MOUNDS

A GAME TO REMEMBER

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ASTROLOGY

BOG TOGS

TEMPLE TIMES TWO

VIKING SUPPORT ANIMALS

THE PALACE ON TABLET HILL

A SURPRISE IN SUDAN

BULLISH ON THE STORM GOD

HYBRID HOARD

BIG GAME HUNTING

CUICUILCO, MEXICO

AROUND THE WORLD

Rise of the Persian Princes • In their grand capital Persepolis, Achaemenid rulers expressed their vision of a prosperous, multicultural empire

An Elegant Enigma • The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck

Inside a Magnificent Celtic Tomb • New investigations of an Iron Age burial in France reveal the source of one woman’s exceptional power

DEFENDING THE CANYONLANDS • Rare shields from the American Southwest are a legacy of a turbulent time in Native history

AFRICA’S MERCHANT KINGS • The early Christian kingdom of Aksum was at the heart of a great maritime trading network

SURVIVING A WINDSWEPT LAND • For 13,000 years, hunter-gatherers thrived in some of the world’s harshest environments

AIA NEWS • Updates from the Archaeological Institute of America

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