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.

SYMBOLIZING THE PAST

ARCHAEOLOGY

ASPIRATIONAL ARCHITECTURE

FROM OUR READERS

DIGS & DISCOVERIES • BRITAIN’S RAVENOUS RAPTORS, PALEOLITHIC PLANNERS, FESTIVE FISH FEASTS…AND MUCH MORE

THE KING’S THRONE

BYZANTINE BOOMTOWN

LAY OF THE LAND

MAKING HISTORY

SOMETHING’S FISHY

STICKING TO THE RAPTOR DIET

HERO WORSHIP

PHARAOH’S FATE

BULOW PLANTATION RUINS, FLORIDA

AROUND THE WORLD

GODDESS AT THE CROSSROADS • Why a city put its trust in a Greek deity feared throughout the Mediterranean world

Lost City of the Samurai • Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles

Desert Paradise Found • How a tiny, water-rich kingdom came to dominate vital trade routes in the Arabian Gulf 4,000 years ago

A PASSION FOR FRUIT • Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more

ROYAL FRUIT

ANCIENT COMFORT FOOD

ORIGINAL GEORGIA PEACHES

THE STRAWBERRY CURE

FUNERAL FRUIT

POISONOUS PICNIC

SNEAKING A SNACK

Peru’s Timeless Threads • More than 1,000 years ago, master weavers kept the ancient traditions of the Moche culture alive

THE MANY FORTRESSES OF ALI PASHA • How a father and son are documenting the architectural legacy of a renegade nineteenth-century warlord

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of AMERICA

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