The Archaeology of Ancient Magic Posted: December 30, 2024 | Last updated: December 30, 2024 My research as an apprentice-scholar of religion is ancient Greco-Roman magic.

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Archaeology is a messy business. Digging holes—in the dirt, in the sand, and in the rain forest—is essential.

An online platform born from a Twitter conversation, TrowelBlazers celebrate the historical and present-day contributions of women to the ‘digging sciences’ of archaeology, paleontology and ...