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The Secrets Of Sabotage
Archaeology

The Secrets Of Sabotage

One of history’s greatest “what ifs” is the question of what would have happened had the Germans been able to develop nuclear weapons during the Second World War.

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January/February 2018
Evolution Of A Town
Archaeology

Evolution Of A Town

The beginnings of a Roman settlement in southern Gaul

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4 mins  |
November/December 2017
The Rulers Of Foreign Lands
Archaeology

The Rulers Of Foreign Lands

Was a new regional power, once thought of as a bloodthirsty invading force, actually a catalyst for ancient Egypt’s most prosperous era?

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2018
A Local Institution
Archaeology

A Local Institution

The cellar of an 18th-century coffeehouse has been unearthed in Cambridge, revealing a dynamic social venue

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5 mins  |
September/October 2018
When The Inuit Met The Basques
Archaeology

When The Inuit Met The Basques

A site in southeastern Canada bears evidence of surprising 17th-century interactions between peoples from disparate parts of the world

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2018
Shipping Stone
Archaeology

Shipping Stone

A wreck off the Sicilian coast offers a rare look into the world of Byzantine commerce

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9 mins  |
September/October 2018
samhain revival
archaeology

samhain revival

looking for the roots of halloween in ireland’s boyne valley.

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10 mins  |
november/december 2016
korea's half moon palace
archaeology

korea's half moon palace

an unexpected source begins to tell the story of a long-forgotten ancient asian royal residence. 

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4 mins  |
november/december 2016
a last day, reclaimed
archaeology

a last day, reclaimed

called the great war in its day for its unparalleled scope and bloodshed, world war i still has stories to tell of both violence and humanity.

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10+ mins  |
november/december 2016
the temple builders of malta
archaeology

the temple builders of malta

how an isolated island culture became europe’s most sophisticated neolithic civilization.

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10+ mins  |
november/december 2016
piltdown's lone forger
archaeology

piltdown's lone forger

it centers on piltdown man, paleoanthropology’s greatest whodunit.

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3 mins  |
november/december 2016
December 7, 1941
Archaeology

December 7, 1941

The underwater archaeology of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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10+ mins  |
January/February 2017
Fragments Of Ancestral Memory
Archaeology

Fragments Of Ancestral Memory

Native texts discovered in a remote church in Mexico belong to an ancient sacred tradition

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9 mins  |
September/October 2018
Landscape Of Secrets
Archaeology

Landscape Of Secrets

Archaeologists confront painful memories of the Spanish Civil War

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2017
Painted Worlds
Archaeology

Painted Worlds

Searching for the meaning of self-expression in the land of the Moche

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10 mins  |
September/October 2017
Town Beneath The Waves
Archaeology

Town Beneath The Waves

In a chance find just off Greece’s Peloponnese, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a once-thriving Early Bronze Age settlement.

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2 mins  |
March/April 2017
Seeing Beauty In The Mundane
Archaeology

Seeing Beauty In The Mundane

Looking for traces of a celebrated but unusual artist in suburban Idaho.

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4 mins  |
January/February 2017
The Hidden Stories Of The York Gospel
Archaeology

The Hidden Stories Of The York Gospel

Around a.d. 990, the monks at Saint Augustine’s monastery in Canterbury, England, made an illuminated copy of the four gospels of the New Testament.

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2 mins  |
November/December 2017
Memento Mori
Archaeology

Memento Mori

A cemetery used for centuries is an expression of the enduring relationship between the living and the dead.

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5 mins  |
March/April 2017
The Wall At The End Of The Empire
Archaeology

The Wall At The End Of The Empire

The long and varied history of life along Hadrian’s Wall.

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10+ mins  |
May/June 2017
​Scroll Search
Archaeology

​Scroll Search

In 1946 or 1947, a Bedouin goatherd found a number of ancient texts in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea and the ruins of the town of Qumran in the West Bank.

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3 mins  |
May/June 2017
The Third Reich's Arctic Outpost
Archaeology

The Third Reich's Arctic Outpost

In 1943, the German navy constructed a secret base on the island of Alexandra Land in the Arctic Ocean. 

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1 min  |
May/June 2017
One + One = Forty-Nine
Archaeology

One + One = Forty-Nine

A Crocodile Mummy’s Many Surprises.

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3 mins  |
May/June 2017
Children of Giza
Archaeology

Children of Giza

Finds from a cemetery near the pyramids are illuminating the Egyptian view of youth and the afterlife.

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3 mins  |
July/August 2016
Top 10 Discoveries of 2015
Archaeology

Top 10 Discoveries of 2015

Archaeology’s editors reveal the year’s most compelling finds.

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10+ mins  |
January/February 2016
Angkor Thom's Divine Medicine
Archaeology

Angkor Thom's Divine Medicine

An extensive 12th-century hospital network is being revealed in Cambodia.

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6 mins  |
January/February 2018
The First Australians
Archaeology

The First Australians

The story of the continent’s earliest human  arrivals is being revealed at a rock shelter  in remote and challenging territory

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10 mins  |
July/August 2017
The City At The Beginning Of The World
Archaeology

The City At The Beginning Of The World

The only Maya city with an urban grid may embody an ancient creation myth

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10+ mins  |
July/August 2018
Haiti's Royal Past
Archaeology

Haiti's Royal Past

An early 19th-century palace is a reminder of the ambitious monarchy that rose from the ashes of the Haitian Revolution

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10+ mins  |
July/August 2018
Paradise Changed
Archaeology

Paradise Changed

An ancient Peruvian city stood at the crossroads of technologies

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3 mins  |
July/August 2018

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