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.
VOICES FROM THE PAST
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FROM OUR READERS
THE PARTHENON BY ANY OTHER NAME? • ATHENIAN CURSES, WORLD’S OLDEST SAKE BREWERY, A NEW NEAND ER THAL…AN D MUCH MORE
OFF THE GRID • OPPIDO MAMERTINA, ITALY
GUARDIAN FELINE
THE CURSING WELL
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK
WARRIOR STONE
AT PRESS TIME
POLYCHROME PATCHWORK
SCAREDY CATS
ARMS AND THE WOMEN
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
VIKING KNIGHTS, POLISH DAYS
Z MARKS THE SPOT
AROUND THE WORLD
WEAPONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD • How people of the past developed arms to master the challenges of their time
HUNTING EQUIPMENT
SHIELDS
SIEGE WEAPONS
FIRE LANCES AND CANNONS
BASHERS
CEREMONIAL AND MAGIC WEAPONS
GLADIATOR WEAPONS
MEGASITES OF UKRAINE • Massive 6,000-year-old settlements are revolutionizing how archaeologists understand ancient cities
A PATH TO FREEDOM • At a Union Army camp in Kentucky, enslaved men, women, and children struggled for their lives and fought to be free
The Age of Pictures
THE KING’S CANAL • Rock reliefs in Iraqi Kurdistan show how Assyrian farm ers toiled under the royal gaze
VILLAGES IN THE SKY • High in the Rockies, archaeologists have discovered evidence of mountain life 4,000 years ago
SPLENDOR AT THE EDGE OF THE SAHARA • Excavatio n s of a bustling m edieval city tell the tale of a powerful Berber dynasty
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CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY DAY
A A SUPPORTS SITE PRESERVATION AT DEIR EL-BALLAS, EGYPT
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