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World Archaeology

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Current World Archaeology 136

March 19, 2026
  • Surveying Falerii Novi: the development of a Roman town
  • An island kingdom: extraordinary Hawaiian ancestral art
  • In the heart of the Sahara: the rock art of Wadi Djerat
  • Re-examining the Hjortsprint boat
  • Discovering Denmark: from prehistoric burials to Viking age power
  • Exploring ancient graffiti in Pompeii
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    Current World Archaeology 135

    January 22, 2026
  • The making of ancient Egypt: Glimpsing the artisans behind the artefacts
  • 109 Roman mounts: Excavating a military horse cemetery
  • Heritage on the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Communicating classical antiquity: The making of a museum of ancient art
  • Charles Williams and the remarkable Roman frescoes he discovered in Corinth
  • Phaselis: How a coastal location brought both wealth and war to this ancient city
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    Current World Archaeology 134

    November 20, 2025
  • Building Petra: ordinary lives and extraordinary architecture
  • Mycenaean Pylos: from princes to a palace in Greece
  • The changing faces of Easter Island: shape-shifting figurines
  • Small rings, great power: assessing the Vimose mail coat
  • Corinth’s greatest treasure
  • Special report: an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo in Peru 
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    Current World Archaeology 133

    September 18, 2025
  • Inside Koonalda Cave: examining extraordinary rock art in Australia
  • Uncovering Imet: an ancient Egyptian city in the Nile delta
  • Weapons from the water: secrets of Scandinavia’s first professional army
  • Côte D’Ivoire: early human activity in the West African rainforest
  • What life was like for the female inhabitants of Pompeii
  • Special report: recreating a Mycenaean battle
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    Current World Archaeology 132

    July 24, 2025
  • Digging Apollonia Pontica: the rise and fall of an ancient Greek city
  • A golden hoard in Denmark: runes, religion, and royal power at Vindelev
  • The power of nature: seeking the origins of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain devotional art
  • Polio in medieval Sweden: three burials and a dangerous disease
  • A most unusual pot: cosmic psychopomps and apotropaic pentagrams
  • Special report: studying ancient tattoos
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    Current World Archaeology 131

    May 22, 2025
  • Germany’s Stonehenge? Digging a remarkable ritual landscape
  • Medieval Viterbo: early conclaves and a papal palace
  • The Hoby cups: Roman connections in Iron Age Denmark
  • Lapis Lazuli: an origin story
  • Rome: a tale of two archaeologists
  • Apsaros Roman fort, Georgia: guarding a distant shore
  • Tanzania: early bone-tool production
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    Current World Archaeology 130

    March 20, 2025
  • Spoils of war? Riches from Claudius’ invasion of Britain

  • A key issue: accessing towers on Roman frontiers

  • Forgotten voices of conflict: the fate of First World War graffiti

  • Unusual Gallic burials: excavating bodies seated in pits

  • Iranian swords: what can we learn from trafficked finds?

  • Greece: Master of Actium

  • China: Splendours of Sanxingdui
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    Current World Archaeology 129

    January 23, 2025
  • In search of the Thracians: from ancient tales to archaeological riches
  • Worlds beneath the waves: the submerged story of Liman Tepe
  • The Herculaneum Scrolls: secrets from a Classical library
  • Rock art of Wadi Rum: investigating the prehistoric and protohistoric past
  • Sweden: beneath the surface of a Viking Age cemetery
  • Albania: saving Saranda
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    Current World Archaeology 128

    November 21, 2024
  • On the trail of the legions: a Roman battlegroup in Switzerland
  • The lost city of Ocomtún: searching for Maya settlements
  • Execution sites in Sweden: an archaeology of capital punishment
  • Archive images: seeing the past in the past
  • Italy: the ‘Monster Park’ at Bomarzo
  • Norway: researching whalers’ burials
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    Current World Archaeology 127

    September 19, 2024
  • Seeking the Silk Roads: an extraordinary story of the power of connections
  • Digging Pachacamac: the surprising origins of an Inca pilgrimage centre
  • A Bronze Age refuge: continuity and change at Qarn al-Harf
  • Valeria’s hall of fame: secrets from an imperial forum
  • Life and death at the ‘German Stonehenge’
  • Albania: on the trail of Alexander the Great
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    Current World Archaeology 126

    July 18, 2024
  • Pompeii: the biggest dig in a generation
  • AI and archaeology: reconstructing ancient landscapes
  • Creatures of the Nile: what animals did for ancient Egypt
  • Seeking Bluetooth’s kingdom: a journey through Viking Denmark
  • Ghana: digging Christiansborg Castle
  • South America: monumental rock art
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    Current World Archaeology 125

    May 23, 2024
  • Villa life: new light on luxurious Roman residences in the Netherlands
  • Digging Benin City: excavations at the former royal palace
  • Submerged prehistoric settlements: seeing beneath the surface in the Balkans
  • Encircling the Empire: how Rome’s frontier network was chronicled
  • Albania: new excavations at Butrint
  • France: exposing an 11th-century abbey
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    Current World Archaeology 124

    March 21, 2024
  • Warriors of Rome: from soldiers to citizens in service of the Empire
  • Japan’s longest sword: unearthing the secrets of an extraordinary tomb
  • Mechanical marvels: the clockwork gadgets where East meets West
  • Mapping histories: recent fieldwork at Jebel Hafeet
  • Italy: the apogee of Monte Cassino
  • United States: new finds at Mesa Verde
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    Current World Archaeology 123

    January 25, 2024
  • Japan’s royal tombs: investigating expressions of elite power
  • Monte Cassino: excavating one of the wonders of Christendom
  • New light on cave art: surprising Ice Age images in Spain
  • Jordan: global trade and ancient mobility on a Roman frontier
  • The Netherlands: an ancient solar calendar discovered
  • Australia: Sydney’s big dig
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    Current World Archaeology 122

    November 23, 2023
  • A forgotten civilisation: exploring the lost world of Sanxingdui
  • Not just a stone age: extraordinary timber architecture at Kalambo Falls
  • Young versus Champollion: deciphering the decipherers of Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • Myanmar: cradle of empires
  • Tating ware: on the trail of a pottery paradox
  • Georgia: the Golden Age
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    Current World Archaeology 121

    September 21, 2023
  • China unearthed: a hidden history of tombs and offerings
  • A bitter harvest: slave labour and sugar on São Tomé
  • Sailing stony seas: seeking ship graffiti on Malta
  • Ancient Egypt and the dawn of literature: revisiting the oldest book in the world
  • Italy: an island prison on Ventotene
  • Greece: exploring prehistoric Volos
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    Current World Archaeology 119

    May 18, 2023
  • Rethinking the role of Persian and Greek luxury
  • Investigating the transition to settled and farming lifestyles on the Konya Plain
  • Exploring Persia’s northern defences in late antiquity
  • The archaeological gems of Greece’s forgotten highlands
  • Grama Bay: a crossroads in the Mediterranean
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    Current World Archaeology 117

    January 19, 2023
  • ‘The city thirsts’: the most extensive water supply system in the ancient world
  • The Priest of Pututus: a unique Andean tomb
  • Conjuring Mongolian deer stones: seeking the meaning of enigmatic monoliths
  • The man in the parcel: unravelling a mortuary mystery
  • Ireland: the prehistoric passage tombs of Knowth and Newgrange
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