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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
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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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Letter from Brooklyn September/October 2018
New York City's Dirtiest Beach
Long-lost clues to the lives of forgotten New Yorkers are emerging from the sands at Dead Horse Bay
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Letter from England July/August 2018
Inside the Anarchy
Archaeologists explore the landscape of England’s first civil war
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Letter From the Philippines May/June 2018
One Grain at a Time
Archaeologists uncover evidence suggesting rice terraces helped the Ifugao resist Spanish colonization
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Letter From Hungary March/April 2018
The Search for the Sultan’s Tomb
How archaeologists trying to locate the final resting place of Suleiman the Magnificent uncovered the remains of a crucial outpost of the Ottoman Empire
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Letter From Albania January/February 2018
A Road Trip Through Time
As a new pipeline cuts its way through the Balkans, archaeologists in Albania are grabbing every opportunity to expose the country’s history—from the Neolithic to the present
(TAP/G. Shkullaku)