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ARCHAEOLOGY

September/October 2025
Magazine

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.

SPECIAL TREATMENT

ARCHAEOLOGY

SAVING THE SEA

FROM OUR READERS

LAW & ORDER • HERCULES IN HIS CUPS, ANCIENT AIR FRESHENER, NORDIC METAL MASTERS…AND MUCH MORE

AFRICAN SWORDCRAFT

CRYPTO POWER

NORDIC METAL

DEAD DRUNK

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

MASTER OF PUPPETS

ANCIENT AIR FRESHENER

A DAY AT THE HUNT

CHINESE FRONTIER FORT

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

NECROPOLIS OF PANTALICA, ITALY

AROUND THE WORLD

Spirit Cave Connection • The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people

CHACO CANYON ANCESTORS

Here Comes the Sun • On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows

HOW TO BUILD A MEDIEVAL CASTLE • Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?

MYTH OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON • Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty

REMOTE SANCTUARY AT THE CROSSROADS OF EMPIRE • Ancient Bactrians invented distinct ways to worship their gods 2,300 years ago in Tajikistan

SEARCHING FOR WASHINGTONIA • How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of AMERICA

FROM THE FIELD

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  • OverDrive Magazine

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  • English