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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
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Searching for Washingtonia
How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community
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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
How a father and son are documenting the architectural legacy of a renegade nineteenth-century warlord
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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
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Letter From Singapore November/December 2017
The Lion City's Glorious Past
The founding mythology of this city-state was once thought to be pure fiction—ARCHAEOLOGY says otherwise
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Letter from California September/October 2017
The Ancient Ecology of Fire
Lessons emerge from the ways in which North American hunter-gatherers managed the landscape around them
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Letter From Peru July/August 2017
Connecting Two Realms
Archaeologists rethink the early civilizations of the Amazon
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Letter from Greenland May/June 2017
The Ghosts of Kangeq
The race to save Greenland’s Arctic coastal heritage from a shifting climate
(Photo: R. Fortuna, National Museum of Denmark 2016)