Archaeology Magazine tells the story of the human past through articles that explore the latest discoveries from around the world.
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Egypt’s Valley of the Kings became a tourist destination more than 2,000 years ago! Now, archaeologists have discovered graffiti in royal tombs scrawled by merchants from India.
archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2026/digs-discoveries/tamil-tourists/
Archaeologists have excavated thousands of texts from an ancient Egyptian village. One read, “Let there be brought some fresh goose fat ... very quickly, because the cat has eaten that which was brought to me yesterday.”
archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2025/digs-discoveries/the-cat-and-the-fat/
The 6.6-ton Altar Stone of Stonehenge may have arrived in southern England from Scotland. Some archaeologists now believe Neolithic people hauled the megalith over land and down rivers, hundreds of miles!
archaeology.org/news/2026/06/04/how-did-stonehenges-altar-stone-arrive-at-salisbury-plain/
About 60 miles east of Cincinnati stands an enigmatic monument. Serpent Mound was built by ancestral Native Americans, and archaeologists debate its origins. Now they're working with elders to understand its cosmic connection.
archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2026/features/secrets-of-the-serpent/
Students in Rome discovered a second-century A.D. villa while exploring tunnels beneath their high school, and now archaeologists are unearthing more of its splendor ...
archaeology.org/news/2026/06/08/archaeologists-explore-villa-beneath-high-school-in-rome/
They called him Æthelred the Unready, but he tried his best. The medieval English king, constantly besieged by Viking marauders, attempted to fight, attempted to bribe, and finally minted special Lamb of God coins.
archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2026/digs-discoveries/viking-payday/
At 73 miles long, it spanned Great Britain west to east; Hadrian’s Wall was one of the clearest symbols of the might of Roman Empire at its frontier. Now archaeologists are getting to know the families who lived there!
archaeology.org/collection/the-wall-at-the-end-of-the-empire/
New excitement in the archaeology of ancient Egypt’s capital! Not Thebes—the earlier capital of Ihnasiya al-Madina. The discoveries include a nineteenth-century B.C. block inscribed with the names of a pharaoh and Osiris.
archaeology.org/news/2026/06/05/ancient-egyptian-capital-city-investigated/
Native American people in what’s now Colorado, Wyoming, and beyond began tossing dice 12,500 years ago. One archaeologist says hunter-gatherer groups spoke different languages, “but they all spoke the language of the game.”
archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2026/artifacts/native-american-dice/
Cuneiform tablets describe 100-plus festivals in the Hittite calendar, many in autumn. What if the king arrived late from his summer military campaigns? That might call for an emergency festival—the Festival of Haste.
archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2026/digs-discoveries/hurry-up-and-celebrate/
