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.
LIVING ON THE EDGE
ARCHAEOLOGY
THE AIA: A BIG TENT
FROM OUR READERS
ANCIENT ACADEMIA • VIKING BOAT BURIALS, SUPERNATURAL CAVE ART, BRONZE AGE MONKEYS…AND MUCH MORE
OFF THE GRID • GUNUNG KAWI, BALI
BICYCLES AND BAYONETS
A BARREL OF BRONZE AGE MONKEYS
DOMESTIC HARMONY
SHOCK OF THE OLD
SAILING THE VIKING SEAS
EGYPTIAN CONEHEADS
CHINA’S CARP CATCHERS
FIELD OF TOMBS
BIRD ON A WIRE
TOOL TIME
PROTECTING THE YOUNG
EARLY ADOPTERS
AROUND THE WORLD
INSIDE A MEDIEVAL GAELIC CASTLE • A tiny Irish island holds the secrets of an unknown royal way of life
THE CASTLE OF HEROES
MEDIEVAL CATTLE RAIDERS
LORD OF THE OASIS • In Egypt’s Western Desert, worship of the mysterious god Seth thrived long after it waned elsewhere
The Founder’s Tomb • Frescoes discovered in a Jordanian village narrate the early days of a once-cosmopolitan city on the eastern edge of the Roman Empire
REMEMBERING THE SHARK HUNTERS • Unique burials show how ancient Peruvians celebrated dangerous deep-sea expeditions
ATOMIC AGE GHOST FLEET • The submerged remains of two massive bomb tests in the Pacific illustrate the potential horrors of nuclear war
THE NEXT TEST
IN SEARCH OF PREHISTORIC POTATOES • Native peoples of the American Southwest dined on a little-known spud at least 10,000 years ago
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DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA • EXCAVATE ■ EDUCATE ■ ADVOCATE
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