In This Issue
Rescuing the Past |
The environmental perils facing Knossos are echoed the world over.
by Peter A. Young |
From the President
A Romantic Notion |
Our goal must be to mitigate damage and perhaps to refrain from excavating certain sites altogether.
by Nancy C. Wilkie |
Insight
The Muse Within Us |
Poetic visions of the past
by James Wiseman |
Books
Neolithic Noah |
Are the claims of two geologists all wet? (Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History, William Ryan and Walter Pitman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998).
Reviewed by Mark Rose (Check
out ARCHAEOLOGY's bookstore for the latest list
of new books.) |
At the Museums
Ötzi's New Home |
The 5,000-year-old Iceman goes on exhibit in Bolzano, Italy.
by Neil Asher Silberman (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's
latest list of museum exhibitions.) |
Multimedia
Simulated Caesars |
Civilization III (Sid Meier. Microprose Software, Inc., 1996); Age of Empires (Ensemble Studios. Microsoft, Inc., 1997); and Caesars III (David Lester. Sierra Online, Inc., 1998).
reviewed by Nicholas Nicastro. |
Forum
Faux Maya |
Xcaret, an eco-archaeological park near Cancún, Mexico, aims to entertain visitors through education.
by Angela M.H. Schuster. |
