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Letter from Greece September/October 2025

Searching for Washingtonia

How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community

View looking northeast along the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece

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Letter from Williamsburg July/August 2025

A New Look at an Old City

Archaeologists are reconstructing the complicated 400-year history of Virginia’s colonial capital

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Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith/The Library of Congress

Letter From Albania May/June 2025

The Many Fortresses of Ali Pasha

How a father and son are documenting the architectural legacy of a renegade nineteenth-century warlord

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Andronira Burda

Letter from the Levant March/April 2025

On the Origin of the Pork Taboo

Exploring ancient people’s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs

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Courtesy Giorgio Buccellati

Letter from Uzbekistan January/February 2025

An Oasis City’s Origin Story

Searching for the earliest history of a fabled Silk Road metropolis

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Sören Stark

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  • Letter from El Salvador November/December 2023

    Uneasy Allies

    Archaeologists discover a long-forgotten capital where Indigenous peoples and Spanish colonists arrived at a fraught coexistence

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    (Courtesy Roger Atwood)
  • Letter from Vesuvius September/October 2023

    Digging on the Dark Side of the Volcano

    Survivors of the infamous disaster rebuilt their lives on the ashes of the a.d. 79 eruption

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    (Courtesy Girolamo Ferdinando De Simone)
  • Letter from Patagonia July/August 2023

    Surviving a Windswept Land

    For 13,000 years, hunter-gatherers thrived in some of the world’s harshest environments

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    (Courtesy Raven Garvey)
  • Letter from the American Southeast May/June 2023

    Spartans of the Lower Mississippi

    Unearthing evidence of defiance and resilience in the homeland of the Chickasaw

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    (Kimberly Wescott and Brad Lieb, Chickasaw Native Explorers Program 2015)
  • Letter from the Faroes March/April 2023

    Lost History of the Sheep Islands

    New evidence shows that the remote North Atlantic archipelago was settled hundreds of years before the Vikings reached its shores

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    (Polhansen/Adobe Stock)
  • Letter from Ethiopia January/February 2023

    Exploring a Forgotten Jewish Land

    Using oral history, texts, and survey, archaeologists search for traces of a once-vibrant religious community

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    (Courtesy JewsEast Research Project)
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