MAY/JUNE 2024 * VOLUME 77, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS FEATURES 14 Mummy cartonnage, Oxyrhynchus, Egypt 22 ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S UNTOLD STORY Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king BY ALEX ROWSON 30 SEARCHING FOR LOST CITIES From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time BY THE EDITORS 40 EMBLEM FOR A NEW ERA A Bronze Age warrior's grave yields a final clue to his identity BY JARRETT A. LOBELL 42 FORTS OF THE BISON HUNTERS How the Wichita secured their homeland on the Great Plains BY MATT STIRN 46 HIGH PRIESTESSES OF COPPER AGE SPAIN Opulent burials are evidence of women's religious and political power nearly 5,000 years ago BY DANIEL WEISS Cover: Marble portrait from Alexandria, Egypt, of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (reigned 336-323 b.c.) PHOTO: Album / PrismA archaeology.org 1http://www.archaeology.org