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.
A WORLD OF SURPRISES
DID JESUS EAT QUICHE?
FROM OUR READERS • We received many letters about “Eat More Spore” in our November/December 2018 issue. We salute our adventurous readers—and those who wish to be—who shared their experiences with us.
THE CASE OF THE STOLEN SUMERIAN ANTIQUITIES
OFF THE GRID • OSSABAW ISLAND, GEORGIA
ANCIENT AMAZONIAN CHOCOLATIERS
STOP • AN IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM OUR PUBLISHER
FIT FOR A PRINCE
WHEN THINGS GOT CHEESY
FUNNY BUSINESS
DOUBLE VISION
RAISE A TOAST TO THE AUROCHS
A LOST SOCK’S SECRETS
LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW
BATH TILES
INDIA’S ANONYMOUS ARTISTS
NO RAINBOW REQUIRED
PASSAGE TO THE AFTERLIFE
WORLD ROUNDUP
TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2018
A DARK AGE BEACON • Long shrouded in Arthurian lore, an island off the coast of Cornwall may have been the remote stronghold of early British kings
WAS THERE A REAL KING ARTHUR?
What Sank San Diego? • Was it a German torpedo, a mine, or saboteurs that sent this imposing World War I ship to the bottom of the Atlantic?
THE MAYA ANIMAL KINGDOM • Captive big cats might be key to understanding ancient Mesoamerica’s complex network of culture and commerce
CAMBODIA’S CAVE OF BRIDGES • A vast mountainside cave in the midst of lush farmland conceals at least 70,000 years of Southeast Asian prehistory
OF CESSPITS AND SEWERS • Exploring the unlikely history of sanitation management in medieval Holland
2018 THE YEAR OF TROY
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