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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OUR COASTAL ORIGINS • A HIDDEN KHMER MASTERPIECE, INTERFAITH SHIPPING, LOST VIKING WATERWAYS…AND MUCH MORE

OFF THE GRID • PREAH KHAN OF KOMPONG SVAY, CAMBODIA

A DAY BY THE RHONE

PAINFUL PAST

MINIATURE MASTERPIECES

PRECISION MEASUREMENTS

SHIP OF PLENTY

A TALE OF TWO PIPES

TO REACH THE GODS

BRONZE AGE KEEPSAKES

UNCOVERING PYLOS

HONORING THE DEAD

PALEOLITHIC BEDTIME

LAURENS’ LAST STAND

PIGGY PLAYTHINGS

WHAT’S IN A NORSE NAME?

AROUND THE WORLD

ALCOHOL THROUGH THE AGES • How the magic of fermentation has transformed the human experience

SPIRITS FOR THE DEAD • Egypt

ACHAEMENID WINE CONNOISSEURS • Iran

SOCIALIZING AT THE SYMPOSIUM • Greece

A TASTE FOR THE EXOTIC • Korea

FORGING WARI ALLIANCES • Peru

DESERT WINE • Israel

TRIANGLE TRADE • Barbados

THE MOONSHINE ERA • United States

The Great Wall of Mongolia • A nomadic medieval dynasty constructed a 450-mile barrier to help manage their sprawling empire

CANADA’S FORGOTTEN CAPITAL • Beneath the streets of Old Montreal, the rubble of a short-lived Parliament building offers a glimpse into a young country’s growing pains

IN THE REIGN OF THE SUN KINGS • Old Kingdom pharaohs faced a reckoning that reshaped Egypt’s balance of power

WEAVING FOR THEIR ANCESTORS • For 1,000 years, the Paracas people of Peru expressed their vivid conception of life and death through textiles

THE PRICE OF PURPLE • Archaeologists have found new evidence of a robust dye industry that endured on the Mediterranean coast for millennia

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