July/August 2013 Issue

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    Lost Tombs

    In search of history's greatest rulers

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    The First Vikings

    Two remarkable ships may show that the Viking storm was brewing long before their assault on England and the continent

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    Courtesy Liina Maldre, University of Tallinn
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    Miniature Pyramids of Sudan

    Archaeologists excavating on the banks of the Nile have uncovered a necropolis where hundreds of small pyramids once stood

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    (Courtesy Vincent Francigny/SEDAU)
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    Salt and the City

    How a prehistoric saltworks laid the foundations for Europe’s oldest town more than 7,000 years ago

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    Deadly Retreat

    A collapsed WW I tunnel in France reveals a frozen moment on the Western Front

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    A Future for Icons of the Past

    Masterpieces of Greek pottery come face-to-face with state-of-the-art technology

Letter from China

Letter from China

Tomb Raider Chronicles

Looting reaches across the centuries—and modern China’s economic strata

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(Courtesy Lauren Hilgers, Photo: Anonymous)

Artifact

Artifacts

Ancient Egyptian Sundial

A 13th-century limestone sundial is one of the earliest timekeeping devices discovered in Egypt

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(© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY)

Digs & Discoveries

Off the Grid

Off the Grid July/August 2013

Rock House Cave, Arkansas

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(Courtesy George Sabo III, Arkansas Archeological Survey)

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