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.

FOOD AND FINANCE

ARCHAEOLOGY

SUTTON HOO AND THE DIG

FROM OUR READERS

YOU ARE HOW YOU COOK

AFTER THE FALL

CONSIDER THE CRANIUMS

SHIP OF IVORY

MONEY TALKS

HEADS OF THE FAMILY

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

BEAST MASTERS

SWAN SONGS

UNCOVERING PYLOS

A WELSH ANCESTOR

ARTEMIS, APOLLO, AND FRIENDS

A TWIN BURIAL

SAINT HELENA

AROUND THE WORLD

Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers? • The 11,000-year-old stone circles of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey may have been monuments to a vanishing way of life

The Vikings Head West • Discoveries on Iceland’s coast challenge the traditional time line of the island’s settlement

EXPLORING THE KINGDOM OF IZAPA • An overlooked people living between the Olmec and Maya worlds were a cultural force far beyond their realm

ANCIENT TAX TIME • How taxpayers funded the rise of empires

BETWEEN ATHENS AND THEBES • Archaeologists investigate an imposing stronghold that overlooked the contested border dividing two rival city-states

WHERE THE WORLD WAS BORN • Newly discovered rock art panels depict how ancient Aboriginal ancestors envisioned climate change and creation

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DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA • EXCAVATE ▪ EDUCATE ▪ ADVOCATE

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