Table of Contents	Volume 51 Number 2, March/April 1998

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In This Issue From the President Insight The Death of Innocents: The Luxor Massacre by James Wiseman LETTER FROM AUSTIN Scholars Honor Linda Schele. by Angela M.H. Schuster At the Museums Rome's Unsung Artisans by Angela M.H. Schuster Books The Blooming of Historical Archaeology by Mary C. Beaudry Multimedia Real Excavators: Hollywood Archaeology by Jon Solomon Forum The Tabloid Touch by David Soren COMING SOON

Tombs with a View   A Magnificent Mayanist   Cypriot Church Art Found

Newsbriefs Cypriot Church Art Found, Endangered Clovis Sites, Accessing Cosquer Cave, Antiquities Scandal, China's Oldest Map, Tunnel Canceled, Unique Terra-Cotta Fragments THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN An ability to comprehend celestial patterns was a fundamental requirement for Chinese kingship. by David W. Pankenier SAGA OF THE NINEVEH MARBLES How a spectacular collection of Assyrian sculptures ended up in a nineteenth-century English country manor. by John Malcolm Russell THE WORLD'S FIRST CITY Scholars are once again working at Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, seeking the origins of urban life. by Orrin C. Shane, III, and Mine Küçük TOMBS WITH A VIEW Burials on a rock ledge high above an Andean lake yield evidence of a people known to have been among the Inka Empire's fiercest enemies. by Adriana von Hagen and Sonia Guillén JOURNEY TO JAMESTOWN After nearly 40 years, archaeologists have returned to the site of the first permanent settlement in the New World. by Audrey J. Horning

Photos, from top: Chachapoya mummy bundles (Ron Wagter); Linda Schele (© Justin Kerr); sixth-century mosaic (Courtesy Permanent Mission of Cyprus to the United Nations)

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