November/December 2023 - Archaeology Magazine

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Table of Contents November/December 2023

FEATURES

Assyrian Women of Letters

4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets illuminate the personal lives of Mesopotamian businesswomen

China's River of Gold

Excavations in Sichuan Province reveal the lost treasure of an infamous seventeenth-century warlord

Worshipping a Forbidden Goddess

A Roman noblewoman’s devotion to Isis outlasted even an emperor’s ban on foreign cults

Paleolithic Pathfinders

Around 55,000 years ago, a resourceful band of modern humans made a home in southern France

Who Were the Goths?

Investigating the mythic origins of the Roman Empire’s ultimate adversary

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DEPARTMENTS

Digs & Discoveries

The Benin Bronzes’ Secret Ingredient
The Medusa of Mérida
The Queen’s Jewels
A Horse Is a Horse?
Sea God’s Sanctum
Child’s Play
A Stitch in Time
Trading on Their Looks
Imperial Datebook
Island Commander
Anglo-Saxon Style Marker
Off the Grid: Plum Bayou Mounds

Around the World

5,500-year-old Baltic amber bead, Maya nose accessory, Bronze Age Kazakhstan’s horse cult, bottling an eternal Egyptian scent, and ancient Indonesian fashion trends

Letter from El Salvador

Archaeologists discover a long-forgotten capital where Indigenous peoples and Spanish colonists arrived at a fraught coexistence

Artifact

A tight-fisted deity

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