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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FROM THE TRENCHES • LATE-BREAKING NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE WORLD OF ARCHAEOLOGY
OFF THE GRID • RATHCROGHAN, IRELAND
THE WRATH OF THE HITTITES
MELTING SEASON
PROVINCIAL PEN PAL
MEGALITHIC MYSTERY
WORLDS APART
THE LEAD STANDARD
EGYPT’S TEMPLE TOWN
ÆTHELBURGA’S LOCAL CHURCH
DOWN BY THE RIVER
RISE OF THE GREEK CRANE
JETTING ACROSS THE BRITISH ISLES
WORLD ROUNDUP
LIFE IN THE CITY OF THE GODS • Inside the neighborhoods of Teotihuacan, Mesoamerica’s first great metropolis
Teotihuacan’s Stone Faces
SEARCHING FOR THE WITCHES’ TOWER • Archaeologists hunt for evidence of a 17th-century English family accused of witchcraft
FARM TO EMPEROR’S TABLE • Excavations reveal the inner workings of an ancient Roman imperial estate
Magical Beasts of Babylon • How the Ishtar Gate safeguarded the Mesopotamian world
Artists of the Dark Zone • Deciphering Cherokee ritual imagery deep in the caves of the American South
BEYOND PETRA • After the famous city was deserted, a small village thrived in its shadow
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