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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DIGS & DISCOVERIES • PERU’S FIRST TEMPLES, THE PROTO-PARTHENON, EGYPTIAN DIVINE AARDVARK…AND MUCH MORE

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AROUND THE WORLD

TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2024 • ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds

Unearthing a Forgotten Roman Town • A stretch of Italian farmland concealed one of the small cities that powered the empire

Medieval England’s Coveted Cargo • Archaeologists dive on a ship laden with marble bound for the kingdom’s grandest cathedrals

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LOST GREEK TRAGEDIES REVIVED • How a scholar discovered passages from a great Athenian playwright on a discarded papyrus

DANCING DAYS OF THE MAYA • In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions

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AN OASIS CITY’S ORIGIN STORY • Searching for the earliest history of a fabled Silk Road metropolis

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