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.

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY TOOL KIT

ARCHAEOLOGY

PUZZLING OUT THE PAST

FROM OUR READERS

DIGS & DISCOVERIES • EGYPTIAN SILVER QUEEN, POCKET POSEIDON TEMPLE, HADRIAN’S DATEBOOK…AND MUCH MORE

THE MEDUSA OF MÉRIDA

THE QUEEN’S JEWELS

A HORSE IS A HORSE?

SEA GOD’S SANCTUM

CHILD’S PLAY

A STITCH IN TIME

TRADING ON THEIR LOOKS

IMPERIAL DATEBOOK

ISLAND COMMANDER

ANGLO-SAXON STYLE MARKER

PLUM BAYOU MOUNDS, ARKANSAS

AROUND THE WORLD

Worshipping a Forbidden Goddess • A Roman noblewoman’s devotion to Isis outlasted even an emperor’s ban on foreign cults

THE FOUR ALTARS

CHINA’S RIVER OF GOLD • Excavations in Sichuan Province reveal the lost treasure of an infamous seventeenth-century warlord

PALEOLITHIC PATHFINDERS • Around 55,000 years ago, a resourceful band of modern humans made a home in southern France

ASSYRIAN WOMEN OF LETTERS • 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets illuminate the personal lives of Mesopotamian businesswomen

Who Were the Goths? • Investigating the mythic origins of the Roman Empire’s ultimate adversary

SPREADING THE WORD

UNEASY ALLIES • Archaeologists discover a long-forgotten capital where Indigenous peoples and Spanish colonists arrived at a fraught coexistence

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of AMERICA

FROM THE FIELD

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