Table of Contents	Volume 54 Number 1, January/February 2001

The full texts of newsbriefs and selected longer articles are available
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In This Issue The Art of Dupery by Peter A. Young From the President Ambassador to the World by Nancy C. Wilkie Newsbriefs "God's Hands" Did the Devil's Work; Mimbres Court Evidence; Make It So! Sayeth Cleopatra; Gold Wreath; Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Concern; Will "Blind Edip" Sing?; Slaves' Graves?; Egyptian Revival in Atlanta Insight Camelot in Kentucky by James Wiseman American Scene Beneath the Bubblegum by David R. Starbuck At the Museums Taíno Encounters by Jerald T. Milanich Splendor of the Steppes by Angela M.H. Schuster Books Scourge of the Forgery Culture The author of this reasoned polemic comes down hard on scholars and museums. by Ellen Herscher FROM THE TRENCHES Cult of the Kiln by Nancy T. de Grummond Multimedia Underwater Flicks All Wet? by Susan Anton

Saga of the Persian Princess  Faking African Art  Diving on the Titanic  Egyptian Revival in Atlanta

SAGA OF THE PERSIAN PRINCESS In a dangerous corner of the world, uneasy neighbors clamor for the gilded remains of a mummified noblewoman. Trouble is, she's a fraud. by Kristin Romey & Mark Rose FAKING AFRICAN ART A five-year investigation reveals that most West African terra-cotta sculptures are fakes that have fooled specialists, sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and ended up in some of the world's most prestigious museums. by Michel Brent SNAKE GODDESSES, FAKE GODDESSES How forgers on Crete met the demand for Minoan antiquities by Kenneth D.S. Lapatin A RARE BIRD Love her or hate her, Jacquetta Hawkes, with her intuitive, humanistic approach to archaeology, still has us talking. by Christine Finn A THOROUGHLY MODERN MUMMY Experimental archaeology--step by gruesome step, the Egyptian way by Bob Brier DIVING ON THE TITANIC An archaeologist explores the famous wreck. by James P. Delgado TITANIC IN THE COURTS by Ricardo J. Elia Forum Nightmare on Memory Lane by Peter A. Young

Photos, from top: Supposed Persian mummy (©AFP/Corbis); photograph of African artifact used to make fakes (Michel Brent); plaques on the Titanic's bridge (James P. Delgado); possible mummy of Ramesses I (Courtesy Heidi Hoffman)

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