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.

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CONQUISTADOR CONTAGION • LATE-BREAKING NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE WORLD OF ARCHAEOLOGY

OFF THE GRID • FORT ROCK CAVE, OREGON

CIRCLE OF LIFE

NORWEGIAN KNIGHT

A NIGHT OUT IN LEICESTERSHIRE

THE PIRATE BOOK CLUB

ALTERNATIVE DEATHSTYLES

AFTERLIFE UNDER THE WAVES

NO DICE LEFT UNTURNED

A MARK OF DISTINCTION

EARLY BUDDHISM IN INDIA

A BRONZE AGE LANDMARK

TIME’S ARROW

WE ARE FAMILY

WORLD ROUNDUP

CULTIVATING AN ARID LANDSCAPE • Excavations in a Byzantine village in Israel are raising questions about how and why desert agriculture thrived—and then disappeared

Islamic Life in Shivta

Global Cargo • Found in the waters off a small Dutch island, a seventeenth-century shipwreck provides an unparalleled view of the golden age of European trade

A Sanctuary’s Final Farewell • Excavations at Casas del Turuñuelo tell a tale of ritual destruction in the mythical land of Tartessos

DESERT ORCA • A geoglyph recently discovered in southern Peru may date to the beginning of the renowned Nazca Lines tradition

Exploring a Prehistoric Borderland • Hunter-gatherers in northern Europe withstood the spread of agriculture for 1,500 years

EMBLEMS FOR THE AFTERLIFE • Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos

ONE GRAIN AT A TIME • Archaeologists uncover evidence suggesting rice terraces helped the Ifugao resist Spanish colonization

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