National Geographic - USA (2021-11)

LEFT About two inches tall, an amulet found in a Kushite queen’s tomb is topped with a golden head of the Egyptian goddess Hatho ...

archaeologists believe, the queen mother of the next 15 rulers of the Copán dynasty. With the discovery of the queen’s tomb, it ...

Continuing investigations suggest that the power derived from the founder began to falter with the capture and sacri- fice in 73 ...

Battered by the ages, a stone portrait of the Maya ruler known as 18 Rabbit shelters the nest of a great kiskadee, a flycatcher. ...

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A.D. 200 -80 0 AFGHANISTAN BUDDHIST SHRINES ...

Photographed from this perspective, an eight-foot-tall shrine at Mes Aynak, Afghan- istan, appears much larger. Archaeologists h ...

A.D. 200 -80 0 AFGHANISTAN Archaeologists hope to excavate a spectacular Buddhist complex before it’s obliterated by a huge copp ...

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THE “THE CITY OF KILWA IS AMONGST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF CITIES and elegantly built,” wrote Ibn Battuta, one of history’s great t ...

SWAHILI EMPIRE East Africa to Arabia and Asia. Swahili traders, consummate middlemen, sold gold, ivory, and enslaved people to m ...

A ghost town in the Andes became a treasured window into Inca history after explorer Hiram Bingham introduced it to the world. M ...

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Seeing Machu Picchu “fairly took my breath away,” recalled Bing- ham, whose work drew worldwide attention to the ruins in 1913. ...

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MARVELS 1600 S SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA Centuries-old artifacts of the Yupik people, preserved in permafrost, are emerging as tempera ...

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Archaeologist Rick Knecht uses an oar from his boat to support and protect a 400-year-old wooden bow, one of more than 100,000 n ...

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1912 ATLANTIC OCEAN In 1912 the largest, most luxurious cruise ship of its day sank. Its discovery after decades of searching re ...