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.

OUR FAVORITE THINGS

ARCHAEOLOGY

PROTECTING HERITAGE

CREATE YOUR LEGACY • WITH THE AIA & THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON SOCIETY

FROM OUR READERS

READING, WRITING, AND ALGORITHMS • BRONZE AGE EDITORS, NEW NAZCA CAT, PERSIAN STEEL, SIBERIAN MUMMY MASK…AND MUCH MORE

FACE OFF

FORMATTING BRONZE AGE TABLETS

Getty • The Golden Age of Nile Exploration in Words, Pictures, Plans, and Letters

CAT’S EYE VIEW

THE BONE COLLECTOR

WHO IS THAT MASKED GOD?

PERSIAN STEEL

HEAD SPACE

OFFERINGS AT SEA

BATHING WITH THE TOAD GODDESS

OURO PRETO, BRAZIL

AROUND THE WORLD

TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2020* *AND THE DECADE

MUMMY CACHE • Saqqara, Egypt

NEANDERTHAL GENOME • VINDIJA CAVE, CROATIA, 2010

CARBON DATING POTTERY • Worldwide

LARGEST VIKING DNA STUDY • Northern Europe and Greenland

NEOLITHIC CITY OF SHIMAO • SHAANXI PROVINCE, CHINA, 2011

CHILD AND LLAMA SACRIFICE • HUANCHAQUITO–LAS LLAMAS, PERU, 2012

THE FIRST ENSLAVED AFRICANS IN MEXICO • Mexico City, Mexico

LUWIAN ROYAL INSCRIPTION • Türkmen-Karahöyük, Turkey

THE GRAVE OF RICHARD III • LEICESTER, ENGLAND, 2012

THE WRECKS OF EREBUS AND TERROR • ARCTIC CIRCLE, CANADA, 2014

A SHRINE TO ROMULUS • Rome, Italy

HOMO NALEDI • RISING STAR CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA, 2015

LASER SCANNING • ANGKOR, CAMBODIA, 2015

OLDEST CHINESE ARTWORK • Henan, China

ENDURING RITES OF THE MOUND BUILDERS • Georgia, United States

GRAVE OF THE “GRIFFIN WARRIOR” • PYLOS, GREECE, 2015

MUMMIFICATION WORKSHOP • SAQQARA, EGYPT, 2018

OLDEST MAYA TEMPLE • Tabasco, Mexico

FIRST ENGLISH PLAYHOUSE • London, England

REGIO V EXCAVATIONS • POMPEII, ITALY, 2018

RETURN TO THE RIVER • Members of Virginia’s Rappahannock tribe are at work with archaeologists to document the landscape they call home

An Oasis Civilization Rediscovered • In the deserts of Central Asia lie the ruined cities of a lost Bronze Age world

UNFOLDING THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY • A new theory may explain the origins of the famed medieval textile

Behind the Lines of the Great Arab Revolt • Along an abandoned railroad, traces of a bitter WWI-era guerilla conflict have emerged from the sands

STONEHENGE’S CONTINENTAL COUSIN • A 4,000-year-old ringed sanctuary reveals a German village’s surprising connections with Britain

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