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.
OUR ANCESTRAL ATTICS
OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS IN PERIL
LETTERS
SUN STORM
OFF THE GRID • COLONIAL PEMAQUID STATE HISTORIC SITE, MAINE
HONORING OSIRIS
MIRROR, MIRROR
POMPEII REVISITED
NAZI SUB DISCOVERED
DIVINE INVITATION
SAMURAI NEST EGG
FAR FROM HOME
LATE ANTIQUE TLC
PINPOINT PRECISION
A FINAL ACCOUNT
SEAWORTHY SUMERIANS
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
WORLD ROUNDUP
THE CITY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD • The only Maya city with an urban grid may embody an ancient creation myth
Westminster Abbey’s Hidden History • Far above the royal pomp and circumstance, archaeologists unexpectedly discover seven centuries of England’s past
Haiti’s Royal Past • An early 19th-century palace is a reminder of the ambitious monarchy that rose from the ashes of the Haitian Revolution
PARADISE CHANGED • An ancient Peruvian city stood at the crossroads of technologies
An Etruscan Family Story • Surprising evidence of daily life and of one of Rome’s greatest conflicts is found in a wealthy residence in Tuscany
ANCIENT ATHENS’ OTHER CEMETERY • Excavations at Phaleron, a vast Archaic burial ground, are poised to tell the story of the city before the age of democracy
INSIDE THE ANARCHY • Archaeologists explore the landscape of England’s first civil war
DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA • EXCAVATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE
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