Digs & Discoveries July/August 2026

An opulent Roman villa hid a very peculiar staircase and an underground room for secret rites

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Fresco, House of Cybele, Aphrodisias, Turkey

Courtesy R. R. R. Smith, Aphrodisias Excavations

Digs & Discoveries July/August 2026

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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 January/February 2026

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Palace walls, Sardis, Turkey

Courtesy Nicholas Cahill