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Table of Contents Volume 57 Number 1, January/February 2004

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

Features

Egyptomania!
What accounts for our intoxication with things Egyptian?
by Bob Brier

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Seeds of Time
How one woman's knack for extracting history from plant remains led to some startling conclusions about ancient people and the environments that sustained them
by Steve Nash

Nouvelle-France
The legacy of North America's French colonists
by Mark Rose

Battles of Cerro Sechín
Do carvings in northern Peru reflect ancient warfare or an Andean ritual practiced to this day?
by Erica Hill

City of Poseidon
A muddy dig in the Corinthian coastal plain yields the remains of an ancient Greek city swallowed by the sea
by Tom Gidwitz

Osceola's Head
Close encounters with a famed Seminole chief
by Jerald T. Milanich


Further Reading

Departments

In This Issue
Perfect to a Fault
by Peter A. Young

From the President
Happy Birthday, AIA!
by Jane C. Waldbaum

Newsbriefs

Building Trust in Iraq full
Manhattan assistant district attorney and Marine Corps colonel Matthew Bogdanos on tracking down the looted artifacts of the Iraq National Museum

Reviews

Letter From Switzerland: Theme Park of the Gods
A theme park in the heart of the Swiss Alps celebrates ancient achievements as the handiwork of aliens
by Eric A. Powell

On the Cover: A sphinx guards the mausoleum of merchant-prince F.W. Woolworth (1852-1919), who made a fortune with his five-and-dime stores. Like Woolworth, many of New York's wealthiest were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx and chose monuments with Egyptian architectural and sculptural styles. (©Douglas Keister/www.keisterphoto.com)

November/December 2003 | March/April 2004

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