Table of Contents	Volume 58 Number 3, May/June 2005

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

Features Treasures of Tanis Royal riches discovered during World War II rival those of Tutankhamun, but remain virtually unknown by Bob Brier The Devil in the Details What are Brazilian war clubs and Pacific seashells doing in 400-year-old engravings of Florida Indians? by Jerald T. Milanich Neolithic France In a tomb undisturbed for 6,000 years, archaeologists encounter an unexpected world by Jennifer Pinkowski Turtle Dives Again Re-creating George Washington's revolutionary submarine by Tom Gidwitz The Dead of Snake Hill A man's search for his grandfather sparks an unusually moving excavation along the New Jersey Turnpike by Kristin M. Romey

Departments In This Issue Written in the Bones by Peter A. Young From the President Helping Hand for China  Stemming the looting of sites by cutting off a major market by Jane C. Waldbaum News Focus on Iran, drug smugglers threaten Piedras Negras, ancient skeletons in a Welsh closet, a bevy of brothels, Germany's Neandertal-chimp scandal, and much more Conversations Return of Gilgamesh  Translator Stephen Mitchell on his new adaptation of the world's oldest page turner Reviews Tut crosses the pond, web surfing Chaco Canyon, Jack London's hominids, and editors' picks Letter From England Rescuing an Old Dig Women warriors from beyond the Danube and complex burial rituals are among the unexpected finds at a Roman military cemetery by Hilary Cool

On the Cover: The silver coffin of the Pharaoh Psusennes I (r. 1034-981 B.C.) was found at Tanis, in the Nile Delta, during excavations by Pierre Montet in 1940. Psusennes' mummy, wearing a gold face mask, was placed in this silver coffin, which was in turn encased in two stone sarcophagi. (Photograph by Araldo de Luca)

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