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.

EXPLORING THE UNEXPLORED

ARCHAEOLOGY

UNEARTHING TOMORROW

FROM OUR READERS

THE LION OF VENICE ROARS

PURPLE PURCHASING POWER

AN OLD FLAME

FULL NESTERS

A SICILIAN GIFT HORSE

STOP, TOMB THIEF!

THE PALACE TIMES

IN LOCAL NEWS

PROPHETSTOWN, INDIANA

AROUND THE WORLD

TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2025 • Archaeology magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds

RETURN OF THE KING • Caracol, Belize

THE FIRST INDO-EUROPEAN SPEAKERS • Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia

CRETE’S INNER CIRCLES • Papoura Mountain, Greece

OLDEST MUMMIFIED PEOPLE • Southern China and Southeast Asia

DINING WITH DIONYSUS • Pompeii, Italy

THE CASE OF THE MISSING PHARAOH • Thebes, Egypt

HYMN TO BABYLON • Sippar, Iraq

THE WINDS OF CHANGE • Huanchaco, Peru

A FEMININE TOUCH • Çatalhöyük, Turkey

THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS • Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices

THE BIRDS OF AMARNA • An Egyptian princess seeks sanctuary in her private palace

Taking the Measure of Mesoamerica • Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture

Stone Gods and Monsters • 3,000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes

RESISTING THE CENTER PLACE

THERE AND BACK AGAIN

NEOLITHIC CULTURAL REVOLUTION • How farmers came together to build Europe’s most grandiose funerary monuments some 7,000 years ago

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