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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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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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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
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Letter from Greece September/October 2025

Searching for Washingtonia

How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community

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Albert Sarvis

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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  • 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)

  • Letter from Australia November/December 2022

    Murder Islands

    The doomed voyage of a seventeenth-century merchant ship ended in mutiny and mayhem

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    (Roger Atwood)

  • 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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