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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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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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  • 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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    (Courtesy Landesdenkmalamt Berlin/Michael Malliaris)
  • 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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    (M.J. Thomas)
  • 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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    (Courtesy Historical Ecology of the Galapagos Islands Project)
  • 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

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    (Photo by Joli Gbebleou-Sleem)
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