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UPDATE - TEMPLE TIMES TWO
Archaeology

UPDATE - TEMPLE TIMES TWO

A team led by archaeologist Jessica Ortiz Zevallos has returned to the Temple of the Painted Pillars at the site of Pañamarca in northwestern Peru, where they have discovered new well-preserved, brightly colored paintings.

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July/August 2023
BOG TOGS
Archaeology

BOG TOGS

A piece of fabric found in a Highland peat bog in the early 1980s has now been determined to be the oldest example of true tartan ever located in Scotland.

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July/August 2023
A NEW DAY FOR THE ANCESTORS' MOUNDS
Archaeology

A NEW DAY FOR THE ANCESTORS' MOUNDS

In fall 2007, Glenna Wallace, chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, visited the Octagon Earthworks in the central Ohio city of Newark while attending a lecture series at the Ohio State University in nearby Columbus.

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July/August 2023
LETTER FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST SPARTANS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI
Archaeology

LETTER FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST SPARTANS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI

Unearthing evidence of defiance and resilience in the homeland of the Chickasaw

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May/June 2023
The Man in the Middle
Archaeology

The Man in the Middle

How an ingenious royal official transformed Persian conquerors into proper Egyptian pharaohs

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May/June 2023
Rituals of the Cattle Raiders
Archaeology

Rituals of the Cattle Raiders

Rock art in the mountains of South Africa tells the story of how the Khoe and San peoples resisted enslavement

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May/June 2023
Peru's Great Urban Experiment
Archaeology

Peru's Great Urban Experiment

A millennium ago, the Chimú built a new way of life in the vast city of Chan Chan

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May/June 2023
REUSING THE PAST
Archaeology

REUSING THE PAST

Archaeologists discover how an embattled Assyrian king fortified Nineveh

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May/June 2023
LOST ROMAN RESORT
Archaeology

LOST ROMAN RESORT

In the Bay of Naples, miles of ruins recall the splendor of ancient imperial holidays

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May/June 2023
AROUND THE WORLD
Archaeology

AROUND THE WORLD

Researchers determined that a mastodon living in the Pacific Northwest 13,900 years ago was wounded when it was struck by a spear.

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May/June 2023
Archaeology's Top 10 Discoveries of 2021
Archaeology

Archaeology's Top 10 Discoveries of 2021

Discoveries

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January/February 2022
A Brush With Genius
Archaeology

A Brush With Genius

An unprecedented find in central China brings to life the early years of a master calligrapher

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January/February 2022
THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE
Archaeology

THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE

In the early 1960s, archaeologists from around the world descended on the Upper Nile Valley.

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January/February 2022
Under the Holy City
Archaeology

Under the Holy City

A long-running excavation in Jerusalem unearths evidence for two of the city’s least-known eras

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January/February 2022
TURNING SALT INTO GOLD
Archaeology

TURNING SALT INTO GOLD

In the Austrian Alps, generations of miners toiled to extract the ancient world’s most valuable resource

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January/February 2022
OFF THE GRID
Archaeology

OFF THE GRID

OPLONTIS, ITALY

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January/February 2022
AT FACE VALUE
Archaeology

AT FACE VALUE

Researchers are using new scientific methods to investigate how artists in Roman Egypt customized portraits for the dead

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January/February 2022
When Isis Was Queen
Archaeology

When Isis Was Queen

At the ancient Egyptian temples of Philae, Nubians gave new life to a vanishing religious tradition

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November/December 2021
ITALIAN MASTER  BUILDERS
Archaeology

ITALIAN MASTER BUILDERS

A 3,500-year-old ritual pool reflects a little-known culture’s agrarian prowess

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November/December 2021
Piecing Together Maya Creation Stories
Archaeology

Piecing Together Maya Creation Stories

Thousands of mural fragments from the city of San Bartolo illustrate how the Maya envisioned their place in the universe

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November/December 2021
GHOST TRACKS OF WHITE SANDS
Archaeology

GHOST TRACKS OF WHITE SANDS

Scientists are uncovering fossilized footprints in the New Mexico desert that show how humans and Ice Age animals shared the landscape

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November/December 2021
GAUL'S UNIVERSITY TOWN
Archaeology

GAUL'S UNIVERSITY TOWN

New excavations have revealed the wealth and prestige of an ancient center of learning

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November/December 2021
Who Were The Samaritans?
Archaeology

Who Were The Samaritans?

Investigating a once-powerful sect that has preserved its sacred traditions for millennia

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September/October 2021
Digs & Discoveries
Archaeology

Digs & Discoveries

Roman marble cutters, anglo-saxon giant, neanderthal hearing… and much more

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September/October 2021
SECRET RITES OF SAMOTHRACE
Archaeology

SECRET RITES OF SAMOTHRACE

Reimagining the experience of initiation into an ancient Greek mystery cult

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September/October 2021
LAND OF THE PICTS
Archaeology

LAND OF THE PICTS

New excavations reveal the truth behind the legend of these fearsome northern warriors

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September/October 2021
The Pursuit of Wellness
Archaeology

The Pursuit of Wellness

How the ancients attended to mind, body, and soul

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September/October 2021
THE EQUESTRIAN'S CAVE
Archaeology

THE EQUESTRIAN'S CAVE

Recent discoveries in western Mongolia suggest that nomadic horsemen may have invented a revolutionary technology

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September/October 2021
THE PRICE OF PURPLE
Archaeology

THE PRICE OF PURPLE

Archaeologists have found new evidence of a robust dye industry that endured on the Mediterranean coast for millennia

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November/December 2020
Archaeology

IN THE REIGN OF THE SUN KINGS

Old Kingdom pharaohs faced a reckoning that reshaped Egypt’s balance of power

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November/December 2020