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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THE MESOPOTAMIAN MERCHANT FILES • LATE-BREAKING NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE WORLD OF ARCHAEOLOGY

OFF THE GRID • EL PILAR, BELIZE

HE’S NO STONE FACE

SATELLITES ON THE SILK ROAD

GODS OF THE GALILEE

THE VENUS OF VLAKNO

CAESAR’S ENGLISH BEACHHEAD

HEAD IN THE SAND

SEALS OF APPROVAL

EARLY SIGNS OF EMPIRE

TUT’S MESOPOTAMIAN SIDE

NEWTONIAN WHITEBOARD

NOMADIC CHIC

OLD WOMAN AND THE SEA

WORLD ROUNDUP

HOW TO SURVIVE CLIMATE CHANGE • Peru’s Casma state endured unpredictable El Niños and centuries of drought

The Archaeology of Gardens

VILLA GARDENS • Bay of Naples, Italy

COMMERCIAL GARDENS • Cerén, El Salvador

MEDICAL GARDENS • Naantali, Finland

FUNERAL GARDENS • Luxor, Egypt

URBAN GARDENS • Aphrodisias, Turkey

SCIENTIFIC GARDENS • The Woodlands, Philadelphia

ROYAL GARDENS • Seoul, South Korea

FOOD AND WINE GARDENS • Pompeii, Italy

IMAGING THE PAST • What stone toolmaking and neuroscience can tell us about what it means to be human

ENTOMBED IN ASPHALT • A natural tar pit in Trinidad is a time capsule of some of the oldest wooden objects in the Caribbean

THE VIKING GREAT ARMY • A tale of conflict and adaptation played out in northern England

THE SEARCH FOR THE SULTAN’S TOMB • How archaeologists trying to locate the final resting place of Suleiman the Magnificent uncovered the remains of a crucial outpost of the Ottoman Empire

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