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Letter from Boston July/August 2026

In the Shadow of Bunker Hill

The forgotten lives of the townspeople who lost everything in the early days of the American Revolution

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A late eighteenth-century painting titled View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town

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Letter from Bulgaria May/June 2026

Capitals of Khans and Tsars

The untold story of how the Bulgarian Empire challenged medieval Europe’s great powers

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A monument called the Founders of the Bulgarian State in the eastern Bulgarian city of Shumen
Ben O’Donnell

Letter from Wisconsin March/April 2026

People of the Sacred Voice

The Ho-Chunk Nation safeguards a legacy that includes an underwater cache of ancient canoes

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Courtesy William Quackenbush

Letter from France January/February 2026

Neolithic Cultural Revolution

How farmers came together to build Europe’s most grandiose funerary monuments some 7,000 years ago

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© Laurent Juhel, Inrap

Letter from Mongolia November/December 2025

Building the Black City

Why the nomads of the Uighur Empire constructed a medieval urban center like no other

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View of Karabalgasun, Mongolia, landscape
H. Rohland/DAI Bonn

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  • Letter from Siberia September/October 2024

    Strongholds of the Taiga

    Beginning 8,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the forests of northern Russia built some of the world’s earliest fortified settlements

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    Courtesy Henny Piezonka

  • Letter from Nigeria July/August 2024

    A West African Kingdom's Roots

    Excavations in Benin City reveal a renowned realm’s deep history

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    (Mike Pitts)

  • 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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    (Courtesy the New York City Department of Environmental Protection)

  • Letter from Nicaragua March/April 2024

    Who Were the People of Greater Nicoya?

    Archaeologists are challenging long-held assumptions about Mesoamerica’s influence on Indigenous peoples to its south

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  • 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

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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)
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