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.
THE ROLE OF RITUAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
THE MALTESE WAY OF LIFE
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FROM THE TRENCHES • LATE-BREAKING NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE WORLD OF ARCHAEOLOGY
OFF THE GRID • MERV, TURKMENISTAN
SNAKE SNACK
A FUNERAL FIT FOR ETRUSCANS
HISTORY IN THE DNA
A PLOT OF THEIR OWN
PICNIC FOR THE AFTERLIFE
A BIG PRODUCTION
PUTTING DINNER ON THE TABLE
MEDIEVAL BABY BOOTIE
COTTON MILL, PRISON, MAIN STREET
ANIMAL ARCHAEOLOGY
THE UNSEEN MUMMY CHAMBER
NEANDERTHAL FASHION STATEMENT
SPRING BOARDS
WORLD ROUNDUP
DIGGING DEEPER INTO POMPEII’S PAST • New research is uncovering the ancient city’s dynamic story from its origins to the eruption that buried it
Magnetic Mesoamericans • Did an ancient culture master a fundamental force of nature?
THE PRAYERSTONE HYPOTHESIS • Thousands of decorated stone artifacts in the American West may be the key to understanding a people’s contested history
Place of the Loyal Samurai • On the beaches and in the caves of a small Micronesian island, archaeologists have identified evocative evidence of one of WWII’s most brutal battles
Peleliu’s Battle
SACRED RITES OF AN EARLY ANDEAN EMPIRE • A trove of offerings discovered in Lake Titicaca shows how the Tiwanaku used religion to control their territory
BUILDING A ROAD THROUGH HISTORY • 6,000 years of life on the Cambridgeshire landscape has been revealed by a massive infrastructure project
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