Table of Contents	Volume 59 Number 2, March/April 2006

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

Features Ages of Albania The ruins at Butrint reflect an extraordinary history, from the rise of the Iron Age to the fall of the Iron Curtain by Jarrett A. Lobell Artful Surgery  Greek archaeologists discover evidence of a skilled surgeon who practiced centuries before Hippocrates by Anagnostis P. Agelarakis The Little Colony That Couldn't A short-lived settlement founded in Maine in 1607 could have changed the course of American history--if only it had survived by Tom Gidwitz The Mystery of Unknown Man E Was a mummy found in less-than-royal wrappings a disgraced prince who plotted to murder his father, Ramesses III by Bob Brier Hitler's Willing Archaeologists How the SS perverted the Paleolithic record to support Nazi ideology by Heather Pringle

Departments In This Issue A Question of Evidence by Peter A. Young From the President Honoring a Rare Team  Joe and Maria Shaw awarded the AIA's Gold Medal by Jane C. Waldbaum News Nero's Golden Palace closes again, Shock and Awe in Mesopotamia, the oldest Maya writing, knocking back beers at Luxor, and Paleolithic Hong Kong Conversations Museums on Trial  How will a highly charged trial affect shady museum-acquisition practices? Reviews Neandertal crooners, rethinking ancient Jewish art, the Getty Villa reopens, archaeology's a real downer, was the Oracle of Delphi high?, and editors' picks Letter From China The Search for Peking Man The famous fossils are still MIA, but does Chinese paleontology miss them? by Jake Hooker

On the Cover: This head from a statue of the Empress Livia, wife of Augustus (r. 27 B.C.-A.D. 14), was part of an imperial portrait group excavated at Butrint, Albania, in 1928. It was stolen in 1992 but recovered a year later. It now forms the centerpiece of the new Butrint museum, opened in 2005. (Photograph courtesy Butrint Foundation)

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