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.
STORIES TO TELL
ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGY IN YOUR COMMUNITY
FROM OUR READERS
SIBERIAN ISLAND ENIGMA
OFF THE GRID • W.E.B. DU BOIS BOYHOOD HOMESITE, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
CLOSING IN ON A PHARAOH’S TOMB
A RARE EGG
MOUSE IN THE HOUSE
COMMANDER’S ORDERS
THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
MISSING MOSAICS
STONEHENGE’S NEW NEIGHBOR
DARK EARTH IN THE AMAZON
REINDEER TRAINING
AROUND THE WORLD
A NUBIAN KINGDOM RISES • Excavations at a city on the Nile reveal the origins of an ancient African power
Wealth of a Medieval Power Broker • In England’s far northeast, a commanding bishop built a chapel rivaling the grandest in Europe
WALKING INTO NEW WORLDS • Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache
SOUTH AFRICA’S FATEFUL SHIPWRECK • A seventeenth-century vessel foundered off the coast and transformed a nation’s history
RESISTING ROME • How a Celtic tribe fought to defend their Iberian homeland against the emperor’s legions
INSIDE THE ROCK’S SURPRISING HISTORY • Before it was an infamous prison, Fort Alcatraz played a key role defending the West Coast
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DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA • EXCAVATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE
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