Table of Contents	Volume 56 Number 4, July/August 2003

The full texts of newsbriefs, reviews, and selected longer articles are available online; abstracts of other departments and features are also available.

Cover Story Pompeii's Block of Time Four centuries of Roman life are recovered from a single city block. by Rick Jones Voices From the Ashes A former excavator returns to Pompeii as a visitor, and finds that the people she's studied for years still speak to her. by Jarrett A. Lobell Focus on Iraq Spoils of War  The plundering of Iraq's cultural institutions demonstrates yet again how warfare fuels the international trade in looted antiquities. by Neil Brodie Where Civilization Began  McGuire Gibson, an authority on Mesopotamian archaeology, talks about his work in Iraq and the sacking of Baghdad's museums. Further Reading

Features Reviving a Radiant Canvas Restored 1500-year-old murals vividly depict the daily lives of Mexico's Teotihuacanos. by Mark Sullivan A River Rising Time runs out for towns and monuments in the path of China's Three Gorges Dam. by Jeffrey Austin Back to the Old Place A Texas plantation yields remarkable artifacts and hints about an unsavory family history. by Julie Powell Man of 1,000 Faces The forensic genius of Mikhail Gerasimov, Russia's first "Face Finder" by Eve Conant

Departments In This Issue The "Crime of the Century"? by Peter A. Young From the President Iraq's Plundered Past by Jane C. Waldbaum Newsbriefs Dental Wealth Soil Savers Mummy Faces Maya Turncoat All Pots Bulletin Ironclad Identified? Conversations: "Finding Artifacts is Not Archaeology"  An underwater pioneer reflects on his past and looks to the future. Reviews Britannia Rides Erotic Rome Let Slip the Cogs of War Timeless Style Where the Stars are Pots Editors' Picks Letter from Germany: Atlantis of the Baltic Searching for a vanished city that flourished during northern Europe's not-so-Dark Ages by Shareen Blair Brysac

On the Cover: A bejeweled Roman woman stares out from a fresco in Pompeii's first-century A.D. House of Fabius Rufus. This rarely seen portrait, painted over a door frame, is in a building that has not been open to the public for many years. Photograph by Jason Urbanus/SAP

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