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Features January/February 2026
The Cost of Doing Business
Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices
Ece Savaş and Philip Stinson -
Features May/June 2026
Pioneers of Lakefront Living
Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on stilts
© APM/Frank Müller -
Letter from Williamsburg July/August 2025
A New Look at an Old City
Archaeologists are reconstructing the complicated 400-year history of Virginia’s colonial capital
Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith/The Library of Congress -
Features September/October 2025
Here Comes the Sun
On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows
Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark -
Features March/April 2025
Ahead of Their Time
Excavations reveal the surprising sophistication of Copper Age villagers in southwestern Iran 6,000 years ago
Zohreh Prehistoric Project Archive -
Features July/August 2022
Journeys of the Pyramid Builders
The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor
(Kenneth Garrett) -
Digs & Discoveries May/June 2017
Scroll Search
(Courtesy Casey L. Olson and Oren Gutfeld) -
Digs & Discoveries July/August 2021
A Challenging World
(Courtesy Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority) -
Features May/June 2020
Villages in the Sky
High in the Rockies, archaeologists have discovered evidence of mountain life 4,000 years ago
(Matt Stirn) -
Digs & Discoveries January/February 2021
Formatting Bronze Age Tablets
(Courtesy of The Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati)