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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ARCHAEOLOGY

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DIGS & DISCOVERIES • FIRST PLAGUE VICTIMS, MOCHE POTTERY STUDIO, LOST BAROQUE ARTIST…AND MUCH MORE

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

MOCHE POTTERY PROS

HERCULEAN HILARITY

TO BOW OR TO THROW

FORGOTTEN FLEMISH MASTER

PESTILENCE IN PARADISE

EGYPTIAN WARRIOR WOMEN

RECLINING WITH THE RIVER GOD

FIT FOR A CALIPH

KNOWING THE ROPES

SAN AGUSTÍN, COLOMBIA

AROUND THE WORLD

A TOMB OF ONE’S OWN • Life behind the scenes in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

Outfitting Viking Voyagers • In Denmark, archaeologists have discovered a massive factory that equipped an innovative fleet

KINGDOM OF FORTRESSES • How diverse and far-flung Iron Age chiefdoms united to challenge the Assyrian Empire

THE ARTISTS OF URARTU

STONE AGE STARGAZERS • Did artists 12,000 years ago illuminate a cave in Tajikistan with their vision of the Milky Way?

UNEARTHING THE OUTLANDERS • New discoveries challenge ancient prophecies about the peoples living on China’s borders three millennia ago

DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE • Archaeologists have made surprising discoveries spanning 3,000 years at the birthplace of American space exploration

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Archaeological Institute of America

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