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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 Nigeria July/August 2024
A West African Kingdom's Roots
Excavations in Benin City reveal a renowned realm’s deep history
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
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
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 Maryland November/December 2016
Belvoir's Legacy
The highly personal archaeology of enslavement on a tobacco plantation
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Letter from Rotterdam September/October 2016
The City and the Sea
How a small Dutch village became Europe's greatest port
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Letter from England July/August 2016
Stronghold of the Kings in the North
Excavations at one of Britain’s most majestic castles help tell the story of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom
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Letter from Florida May/June 2016
People of the White Earth
In Florida’s Panhandle, tribal leaders and archaeologists reach into the past to help preserve a native community’s identity
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Letter from Guatemala March/April 2016
Maya Metropolis
Beneath Guatemala’s modern capital lies the record of the rise and fall of an ancient city
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Letter from Hawaii January/February 2016
Ballad of the Paniolo
On the slopes of Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s cowboys developed a culture all their own
(Samir S. Patel)