SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022 * VOLUME 75, NUMBER 5 CONTENTS FEATURES 50 Bronze Age tombs flank a funerary avenue in western Saudi Arabia. 26 REDISCOVERING EGYPT'S GOLDEN DYNASTY How King Tutankhamun's family forever changed the land of the Nile BY JASON URBANUS 38 CARIBBEAN CONNECTIONS Using pottery to trace the sea routes of early island settlers BY MARLEY BROWN 40 SICILY'S SACRED WATERS A Phoenician ritual pool on a small island may have been the center of an ancient astronomical observatory BY BENJAMIN LEONARD 44 1,000 FATHOMS DOWN In the Gulf of Mexico, archaeologists believe they have identified a nineteenth-century whaling ship crewed by a diverse group of New Englanders BY DANIEL WEISS 50 ARABIAN AVENUES OF THE DEAD Mysterious stone tombs mark a previously unknown network of pathways across a vast desert landscape BY ZACH ZORICH Cover: Gold and colored-glass sarcophagus from Tutankhamun's tomb, discovered 1922 PHOTO: ArAldo de lucA archaeology.org 1http://www.archaeology.org