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Letter from Greece September/October 2025
Searching for Washingtonia
How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community
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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
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
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
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 Jordan November/December 2019
Beyond Petra
After the famous city was deserted, a small village thrived in its shadow
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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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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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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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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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Letter from Leiden January/February 2019
Of Cesspits and Sewers
Exploring the unlikely history of sanitation management in medieval Holland
(Photo by BAAC Archeologie en Bouwhistorie)