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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 Scotland September/October 2021

    Land of the Picts

    New excavations reveal the truth behind the legend of these fearsome northern warriors

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    (Courtesy The Northern Picts Project)
  • Letter from Alaska July/August 2021

    The Cold Winds of War

    A little-known World War II campaign in the Aleutian Islands left behind an undisturbed battlefield strewn with weapons and materiel

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    (Brendan Coyle)
  • Letter from Australia May/June 2021

    Where the World Was Born

    Newly discovered rock art panels depict how ancient Aboriginal ancestors envisioned climate change and creation

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    (Courtesy Paul Tacon)
  • Letter from Chihuahua March/April 2021

    Cliff Dwellers of the Sierra Madre

    A recurring design motif found in northern Mexico’s ancient mountain villages reflects complex cultural ties between distant peoples

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    (Photo by Stephen H. Lekson)
  • Letter from Woodhenge January/February 2021

    Stonehenge's Continental Cousin

    A 4,000-year-old ringed sanctuary reveals a German village’s surprising connections with Britain

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    (Photo Matthias Zirn)
  • Letter from Israel November/December 2020

    The Price of Purple

    Archaeologists have found new evidence of a robust dye industry that endured on the Mediterranean coast for millennia

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    (Courtesy Michael Eisenberg)
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