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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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(Courtesy Roger Atwood)

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  • Letter from Lake George September/October 2019

    Exploring the Great Warpath

    Evidence from forts, hospitals, and taverns in upstate New York is illuminating the lives of thousands of British soldiers during the French and Indian War

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    (Jerry Trudell the Skys the Limit/Getty Images)
  • Letter from England July/August 2019

    Building a Road Through History

    6,000 years of life on the Cambridgeshire landscape has been revealed by a massive infrastructure project

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    (Highways England, courtesy of MOLA Headland Infrastructure)
  • Letter from the Dead Sea May/June 2019

    Life in a Busy Oasis

    Natural resources from land and sea sustained a thriving Jewish community for more than a millennium

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    (Duby Tal/Albatross/Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Letter From Texas March/April 2019

    On the Range

    Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape

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    (Eric A. Powell)
  • Letter from Leiden January/February 2019

    Of Cesspits and Sewers

    Exploring the unlikely history of sanitation management in medieval Holland

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    (Photo by BAAC Archeologie en Bouwhistorie)
  • Letter from California November/December 2018

    Inside a Native Stronghold

    A rugged volcanic landscape was once the site of a dramatic standoff between the Modoc tribe and the U.S. Army

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    (Julian Smith)
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