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.

THE FIRST DAYS IN THE FIELD

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WHAT DO ARCHAEOLOGISTS DO?

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ANCIENT CHINA’S “PONY EXPRESS”

COYOTE’S QUEST

TAMIL TOURISTS

PUT ON YOUR BEST FACE

VIKING PAYDAY

A SURPRISING ENCOUNTER

HURRY UP AND CELEBRATE

TRIMMING THE FAT

ABORIGINAL ANIMAL SPOTTERS

CAT TRAILS

LIGHT IN THE CAVE

DONGGUNG PALACE AND WOLJI POND, SOUTH KOREA

AROUND THE WORLD

EGYPT’S FIRST QUEEN • How a trailblazing ruler pulled her realm back from the brink

THE PHARAOH’S FORT

Secrets of the Serpent • Is a Native American origin story embedded in Ohio’s colossal earthwork?

SLINGING INSULTS • Greek and Roman soldiers fired pointed barbs at their enemies

Inside Africa’s Houses of Stone • Archaeologists are rethinking how kings shared power beyond the great capitals of medieval Zimbabwe

TENNIS, ANYONE? • Discovering the origins of the peculiar racket game that swept sixteenth-century France

IN THE SHADOW OF BUNKER HILL • The forgotten lives of the townspeople who lost everything in the early days of the American Revolution

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

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