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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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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
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 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) -
Letter from Philadelphia March/April 2017
Empire of Glass
An unusual industrial history emerges from some of the city’s hippest neighborhoods
(Courtesy AECOM, Digging I-95)