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Skeleton Study Reveals Life on the Frontier After the Fall of Rome

Features January/February 2026

Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices

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A digital reconstruction shows how the Civil Basilica in the city of Aphrodisias in southwestern Anatolia would have appeared with the Edict of Maximum Prices inscribed on its facade.

Ece Savaş and Philip Stinson

Digs & Discoveries September/October 2025

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Shai Halevi, Courtesy of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, Israel Antiquities Authority

Features September/October 2025

Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty

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Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum

Features March/April 2025

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens

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Painted lotus-leaf capitals after cleaning in the entrance hall of the temple of Khnum, Esna, Egypt

Ahmed Emam/© Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities