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.
BEYOND THE TRENCHES
ARCHAEOLOGY
DEAR READER,
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
FROM OUR READERS
DIGS & DISCOVERIES • EARLY MAYA WARFARE, ANCIENT ROMAN BATHING, VIKING DRINKING HALL…AND MUCH MORE
OFF THE GRID
AS TOLD BY HERODOTUS
BATH BUDDY
MAYA MAIZE GOD’S BIRTH
CRETAN COASTAL RITES
STILL STANDING
DEERLY DEPARTED
THE TIME HAD COME, THE WALRUS SAID
SKOAL!
MAYA TOTAL WAR
A SEASIDE JOURNEY TO AMERICA
CITY LIMITS
WHERE’S THE BEEF?
AROUND THE WORLD
TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2019
JAPAN’S SACRED ISLAND • For centuries, rituals performed on an isolated island played a key role in the emergence of Japan
Temple of the White Thunderbird • Excavators in southern Iraq have uncovered the long-lost home of the powerful Sumerian warrior god
Gudea’s Big Move
Friend? Roman? Countryman? • A rare Iron Age burial in southern England reflects the close connections between Britain and Gaul two millennia ago
INCA POWER POLITICS • Ruins of a half-built Andean capital are evidence of how the Inca controlled their vast empire—until the Spanish arrived
THE SORROWS OF SPIKE ISLAND • Millions were forced to flee during the Great Famine —some of those left behind were condemned to Ireland’s most notorious prison
DISPATCHES FROM THE AIA
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