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Features Features January/February 2026 Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds

Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world

Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology/Handout via Xinhua Sen You et al., Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025)

The Namib Sand Sea, home to 350-foot-tall sand dunes, receives so little rainfall that it is almost uninhabitable. Scholars believed it had been this way for millions of years—but this turns out ...