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.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE KING

ARCHAEOLOGY

SETTING SAIL TOGETHER

FROM OUR READERS

PERU’S LOST TEMPLE • VIKING SWORDS IN THE STONE, EARLIEST AYAHUASCA, SHOCKING TRIPLE BURIAL…AND MUCH MORE

BIRD BRAINS

STANDING SWORDS

EARLIEST AYAHUASCA TRIP

EARLY MEDIEVAL ELEGANCE

L IS FOR LICE

WEAPONS OF CHOICE

WINTER LIGHT

CLOSELY KNIT

MOUNDS IN THE FAMILY

WARD CHARCOAL OVENS STATE HISTORIC PARK, NEVADA

AROUND THE WORLD

THE ANCIENT PROMISE OF WATER

MASTERS OF THE DESERT • Petra, Jordan

LIKE WATER FOR WHEAT • Loess Plateau, China

BATH TIME • Stabiae, Italy

THE KING’S SPEECH • Konya Province, Turkey

A TASTE OF PARADISE • Nagaur, India; Kabul, Afghanistan

WATER POWER • Koh Ker, Cambodia

THE LIMITS OF THE NILE • Thmuis, Egypt

SAVING FOR THE SEASON • Swahili Coast, Tanzania

AN ENIGMATIC EMPIRE RISES • A newly discovered 3,500-year-old palace in Iraqi Kurdistan provides a rare look at a regional superpower

The Shaman’s Secrets • 9,000 years ago, two people were buried in Germany with hundreds of ritual objects—who were they?

END OF AN ERA • Archaeologists discover that the ancient city of Ephesus met a fiery demise

A CALIPH’S SHINING CITY • In southern Spain, Umayyad rulers built a sprawling complex to reflect their unique vision of the medieval Islamic world

MOSAIC MASTERPIECES

UNCOVERING EASTER ISLAND

LOST HISTORY OF THE SHEEP ISLANDS • New evidence shows that the remote North Atlantic archipelago was settled hundreds of years before the Vikings reached its shores

AIA NEWS • Updates from the ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of AMERICA

Twenty Years After the Looting of the National Museum of Iraq • Brian I. Daniels, AIA First Vice President

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