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.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

ARCHAEOLOGY

WHAT DO ARCHAEOLOGISTS DO?

FROM OUR READERS

DIGS & DISCOVERIES • TOMB OF THE OWL LORD, BRAZIL’S WHALE WATCHERS, AN INDIAN LABYRINTH…AND MUCH MORE

RUNNING CIRCLES AROUND THE COMPETITION

ANCIENT ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST

MARK OF THE HUMAN

BUILT FOR COMFORT

TURNING OVER THE SOIL

TOMB OF THE OWL LORD

SGANG GWAAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

AROUND THE WORLD

THE UNEXPECTED WORLD OF THE ODYSSEY • Discovering the surprising inspirations behind Homer’s great tales of the Trojan War

BIRTH OF SPRING

THE ARCHER’S TOMB

ANOTHER TROJAN WAR?

THE SCIENCE OF HOMER

A SUPREME SPECTACLE

HOMETOWN HERO

MARITIME MYCENAEANS

TROJAN TOURIST TRAP

THE LAST MAYA KINGDOM • On the shores of a lake in Guatemala, the Itzá people defied the Spanish for nearly 200 years

Art for the Ages • A surreal style of painting endured for 4,000 years in the canyonlands of West Texas

BRIDGE TO THE PAST • The Yellow River brought both prosperity and calamity to China’s dazzling medieval capital

Pioneers of Lakefront Living • Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on stilts

CAPITALS OF KHANS AND TSARS • The untold story of how the Bulgarian Empire challenged medieval Europe’s great powers

Photo Credits

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

FROM THE FIELD

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