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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DIGS&DISCOVERIES • MOHAWK MAIZE, ASSYRIAN DREAMS, ICE AGE CANNIBALS…AND MUCH MORE

A COURTESAN’S PRIZED POSSESSION

MAIZE MAINTENANCE

DENMARK’S FOUNDING MOTHER

TRACKING ANCIENT ANIMALS

ICE AGE CANNIBALISM

FROM HUNTED TO HERDED

DIVINE DREAMING

LEGIONARY PERSONAL EFFECTS

PORTRAIT OF AN ANCIENT AX

AMBROSIO CAVE, CUBA

AROUND THE WORLD

TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2023 • ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds

EARLIEST CARPENTERS • Kalambo River, Zambia

CAVE OF SWORDS • Ein Gedi, Israel

A PAINTED PRAYER • Old Dongola, Sudan

MAGICAL MESOAMERICAN RELICS • Mexico City, Mexico

HUNTER-GATHERER FORTRESSES • Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia

INCA WORKERS’ HOMELANDS • Machu Picchu, Peru

WORLD’S OLDEST BOOK • El Hibeh, Egypt

IMPERIAL MENAGERIE • Xi’an, China

THE FIDDLER’S THEATER • Rome, Italy

IN THE TIME OF THE COPPER KINGS • Some 3,500 years ago, prosperous merchants on Cyprus controlled the world’s most valuable commodity

WHEN THE WATER DRIED UP • How foragers in North America’s Great Basin survived a 1,000-year megadrought

MIDWAY’S LOST WARSHIPS • Archaeologists survey the sunken aircraft carriers whose fate determined the outcome of WWII in the Pacific

The Power of Pergamon • From their monumental capital, the Attalid Dynasty ruled a realm where both Greek and Anatolian culture flourished

SHAPING A HARBOR CITY

SECRETS OF THE CATACOMBS • A subterranean necropolis offers archaeologists a rare glimpse of the city’s early Jewish community

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