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Letter from Greece September/October 2025

Searching for Washingtonia

How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community

View looking northeast along the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece

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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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Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith/The Library of Congress

Letter From Albania May/June 2025

The Many Fortresses of Ali Pasha

How a father and son are documenting the architectural legacy of a renegade nineteenth-century warlord

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Letter from the Levant March/April 2025

On the Origin of the Pork Taboo

Exploring ancient people’s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs

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Letter from Uzbekistan January/February 2025

An Oasis City’s Origin Story

Searching for the earliest history of a fabled Silk Road metropolis

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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

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    (Photo by Joli Gbebleou-Sleem)
  • 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)
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