A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
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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
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
Archaeologists discover a long-forgotten capital where Indigenous peoples and Spanish colonists arrived at a fraught coexistence
A tight-fisted deity