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Letter from Nigeria November/December 2022
A West African Kingdom's Roots
Excavations in Benin City reveal a renowned realm’s deep history
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Letter from the Catskills May/June 2024
Ghost Towns of the Ashokan Reservoir
An archaeologist investigates how construction of New York City’s largest reservoir a century ago uprooted thousands of rural residents
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Who Were the People of Greater Nicoya?
Archaeologists are challenging long-held assumptions about Mesoamerica’s influence on Indigenous peoples to its south
Letter from Rome January/February 2024
Secrets of the Catacombs
A subterranean necropolis offers archaeologists a rare glimpse of the city’s early Jewish community
Letter from El Salvador November/December 2023
Uneasy Allies
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Letter from Germany September/October 2022
Berlin's Medieval Origins
In the midst of modern construction, archaeologists search for evidence of the city’s earliest days
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Letter from Georgia July/August 2022
Soaring With Stone Eagles
A complex of Native American rock mounds bears witness to the endurance of ancient traditions
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Letter from the Bay Area May/June 2022
California's Coastal Homelands
How Native Americans defied Spanish missionaries and preserved their way of life
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Letter from Doggerland March/April 2022
Mapping a Vanished Landscape
Evidence of a lost Mesolithic world lies deep beneath the dark waters of the North Sea
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Letter from the Galapagos Islands January/February 2022
Transforming the Enchanted Isles
Archaeologists uncover the remote archipelago’s forgotten human history
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Letter from Ghana November/December 2021
Life Outside the Castle
At Christiansborg Castle, a community that embodied the complexity of the transatlantic slave trade is being uncovered by descendants of those who created it
(Photo by Joli Gbebleou-Sleem)