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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
Letter from Greece September/October 2025
Searching for Washingtonia
How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community
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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The Many Fortresses of Ali Pasha
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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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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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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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Letter from Alcatraz September/October 2020
Inside the Rock's Surprising History
Before it was an infamous prison, Fort Alcatraz played a key role defending the West Coast
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Letter from Normandy July/August 2020
The Legacy of the Longest Day
More than 75 years after D-Day, the Allied invasion’s impact on the French landscape is still not fully understood
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Letter from Morocco May/June 2020
Splendor at the Edge of the Sahara
Excavations of a bustling medieval city tell the tale of a powerful Berber dynasty
(Photo Courtesy Chloé Capel)