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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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CAREGIVERS • POMPEIAN POLITICKING, CHINESE HEADHUNTERS, INDIAN SPIRITUAL GUIDES…AND MUCH MORE

EDUCATIONAL IDOLS

CLEANING OUT THE BASEMENT

POMPEIAN POLITICS

NEAR EASTERN LIP KIT

TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM FALCON

SPEAKING IN GOLDEN TONGUES

WORKHOUSE WOES

HUNTING HEADS

THE AMAZON’S URBAN ROOTS

LIXUS, MOROCCO

AROUND THE WORLD

Alexander the Great’s Untold Story • Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king

TIME FOR SCHOOL

SEARCHING FOR LOST CITIES • From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time

THE STORM GOD’S CITY • Konya Plain, Turkey

KOREA’S CITY OF DAGGERS • China, North Korea, and South Korea

WHICH ISLAND IS IT ANYWAY? • Unidentified Island, English Channel

MEDIEVAL MOUNTAIN CITADEL • Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan and Afghanistan

LONDON ON THE BLACK SEA • Crimea, Ukraine

PALACES OF THE GOLDEN HORDE • Volga Valley, Russia

AN ENDURING CHIEFDOM • Wateree Valley, South Carolina

KINGDOM OF KAABU’S SECRET CAPITAL • Kansala, Guinea-Bissau

EMBLEM FOR A NEW ERA • A Bronze Age warrior’s grave yields a final clue to his identity

FORTS OF THE BISON HUNTERS • How the Wichita secured their homeland on the Great Plains

HIGH PRIESTESSES OF COPPER AGE SPAIN • Opulent burials are evidence of women’s religious and political power nearly 5,000 years ago

GHOST TOWNS OF THE ASHOKAN RESERVOIR • An archaeologist investigates how construction of New York City’s largest reservoir a century ago uprooted thousands of rural residents

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