Table of Contents	Volume 54 Number 4, July/August 2001

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In This Issue Adventures in Discovery by Peter A. Young From the President Olympic Battle by Nancy C. Wilkie Newsbriefs Chariots of the Celts; Attacking Malta's Past; Going to the Dogs; Georgia on My Mine; Vintage Footage; Armor Hoard; Moolah-la; Old Peru U.; The Rain in Rome; DNA Round-Up; Machu Do about Nothing Insight Declaration of Independence by James Wiseman American Scene Closing the Ignorance Gap by Jerald T. Milanich SPECIAL REPORT Ancient Ancestors? by Angela M.H. Schuster At the Museums Dream to Reality by Özgen Acar Treasures from Ancient Syria by Angela M.H. Schuster Books A Day of Much Slaying by Mark Rose Multimedia Mummy Dearest? by Kristin M. Romey, Mark Rose, and Amélie A. Walker

Celebrating Midas  China's "Dead Sea Scrolls"  Mummy Dearest?

WINDOWS ON THE PAST Africa's endangered rock art provides glimpses of vanished worlds. by Alec Campbell and David Coulson CELEBRATING MIDAS Contents of a great Phrygian king's tomb reveal a lavish funerary banquet. by Elizabeth Simpson ON THE HEALER'S PATH A journey through the Maya rain forest. by Angela M.H. Schuster SCOTLAND'S IRISH ORIGINS Tracking the migration of Gaelic speakers who crossed the Irish Sea 1,700 years ago and became the Scots. by Dean R. Snow TRIBUTE TO A CONQUERING KING Battle scenes at Abydos honor a pharaoh's triumph over Hyksos occupiers and his reunification of Egypt. by Stephen P. Harvey SEAT OF ETERNITY Excavations at Abydos reveal an elaborate funerary complex linking a deceased Middle Kingdom pharaoh to the god Osiris. by Josef Wegner LETTER FROM BEIJING China's "Dead Sea Scrolls" by Wang Tao Forum Only in Texas by Kristin M. Romey

Photos, from top: Artifacts in the "Midas Mound" (Courtesy of the Gordion Excavations, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology); Shanghai Museum director examines slips (Courtesy Wang Tao); Brendan Fraser in the Mummy Returns (Courtesy Universal Studios)

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