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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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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
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
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
Letter from Greece September/October 2025
Searching for Washingtonia
How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community
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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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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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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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Letter From Scotland September/October 2021
Land of the Picts
New excavations reveal the truth behind the legend of these fearsome northern warriors
(Courtesy The Northern Picts Project)