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.
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TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2020* *AND THE DECADE
MUMMY CACHE • Saqqara, Egypt
NEANDERTHAL GENOME • VINDIJA CAVE, CROATIA, 2010
CARBON DATING POTTERY • Worldwide
LARGEST VIKING DNA STUDY • Northern Europe and Greenland
NEOLITHIC CITY OF SHIMAO • SHAANXI PROVINCE, CHINA, 2011
CHILD AND LLAMA SACRIFICE • HUANCHAQUITO–LAS LLAMAS, PERU, 2012
THE FIRST ENSLAVED AFRICANS IN MEXICO • Mexico City, Mexico
LUWIAN ROYAL INSCRIPTION • Türkmen-Karahöyük, Turkey
THE GRAVE OF RICHARD III • LEICESTER, ENGLAND, 2012
THE WRECKS OF EREBUS AND TERROR • ARCTIC CIRCLE, CANADA, 2014
A SHRINE TO ROMULUS • Rome, Italy
HOMO NALEDI • RISING STAR CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA, 2015
LASER SCANNING • ANGKOR, CAMBODIA, 2015
OLDEST CHINESE ARTWORK • Henan, China
ENDURING RITES OF THE MOUND BUILDERS • Georgia, United States
GRAVE OF THE “GRIFFIN WARRIOR” • PYLOS, GREECE, 2015
MUMMIFICATION WORKSHOP • SAQQARA, EGYPT, 2018
OLDEST MAYA TEMPLE • Tabasco, Mexico
FIRST ENGLISH PLAYHOUSE • London, England
REGIO V EXCAVATIONS • POMPEII, ITALY, 2018
RETURN TO THE RIVER • Members of Virginia’s Rappahannock tribe are at work with archaeologists to document the landscape they call home
An Oasis Civilization Rediscovered • In the deserts of Central Asia lie the ruined cities of a lost Bronze Age world
UNFOLDING THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY • A new theory may explain the origins of the famed medieval textile
Behind the Lines of the Great Arab Revolt • Along an abandoned railroad, traces of a bitter WWI-era guerilla conflict have emerged from the sands
STONEHENGE’S CONTINENTAL COUSIN • A 4,000-year-old ringed sanctuary reveals a German village’s surprising connections with Britain
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