Table of Contents	Volume 55 Number 3, May/June 2002

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Departments In This Issue A Bounteous Subject by Peter A. Young From the President Landmark Decision by Nancy C. Wilkie Reviews Savoring an Old Seducer King Scorpion: A Pretty Bad Dude Demise of the Maya Millennium Man on Prime Time NPS Back Online Boning Up on the First Americans 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.

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 Danger! Do NOT Dig Here Liberty Bell Basher Pleads Guilty From Baghdad With Gold Render Unto Ethiopia... Cave Couture Hominids Go Nuts Monumental Art Beachfront Bonanza Shooting Up in the Old West Straight Outta Brooklyn Greek-U.S. Proposition

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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