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.

BEHIND THE SCENES

LESSONS FROM THE PAST

FROM OUR READERS

ICE AGE NECROPOLIS

OFF THE GRID • OUIDAH, REPUBLIC OF BENIN

HELLENISTIC HELMET SAFETY

ALL BUNDLED UP

SPHERES OF INFLUENCE

HAND PICKED

ANCIENT FORESTERS

INDIAN WARRIOR CLASS

PLEASE WASH YOUR HANDS

CAN YOU DIG IT, MAN?

BREAKING THE MOLD

A VERY LONG WAY TO EAT RHINO

HOLD YOUR HORSES

MAKING AN ENTRANCE

DO NO HARM

WORLD ROUNDUP

The Rulers of Foreign Lands • Was a new regional power, once thought of as a bloodthirsty invading force, actually a catalyst for ancient Egypt’s most prosperous era?

A Local Institution • The cellar of an 18th-century coffeehouse has been unearthed in Cambridge, revealing a dynamic social venue

WHEN THE INUIT MET THE BASQUES • A site in southeastern Canada bears evidence of surprising 17th-century interactions between peoples from disparate parts of the world

FRAGMENTS OF ANCESTRAL MEMORY • Native texts discovered in a remote church in Mexico belong to an ancient sacred tradition

SHIPPING STONE • A wreck off the Sicilian coast offers a rare look into the world of Byzantine commerce

NEW YORK CITY’S DIRTIEST BEACH • Long-lost clues to the lives of forgotten New Yorkers are emerging from the sands at Dead Horse Bay

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