Departments
In This Issue A Bounteous Subject by Peter A. Young
From the President Landmark Decision by Nancy C. Wilkie
Reviews
Special Report: Double Standards Greece's minister of culture questions inconsistent attitudes toward his country's patrimony.
by Mark Rose
Letter from Germany: Reliving the Nightmare Hitler's rocket test site is now a space-age theme park.
by Shareen Blair Brysac
On the Cover: An armed Pashtun antiquities dealer keeps
a watchful eye on his merchandise. Photo by Thomas Kelly/Gamma Press.
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Cover Story
The Race to Save Afghan Culture Afghans have been asking the world
to protect what remains of their cultural heritage. A Swiss museum tried to
do something before it was too late.
by Kristin M. Romey
NEWSBRIEFS
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Features
Caligula's
Floating Palaces Archaeologists and shipwrights resurrect one of the emperor's pleasure boats.
by Deborah N. Carlson
Scythian Steeds Blocks of frozen earth yield the remains of horses bearing extravagant regalia.
by Zainullah Samashev and Henri-Paul Francfort
Emerald City Exploration in Egypt's Eastern Desert reveals the mines that furnished Rome's elite with coveted stones.
by Jean-Louis Rivard, Brandon C. Foster, and Steven E. Sidebotham
Doyenne of Mayanists Merle Greene Robertson has spent a
lifetime chronicling Mesoamerican art.
by Tom Gidwitz
Case of the
Colorado Cannibal Alferd Packer may have eaten
his snowbound fellow prospectors, but did he kill them?
by Andrew Curry
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