Table of Contents	Volume 51 Number 4, July/August 1998

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In This Issue From the President Insight Eagle Eye at NASA by James Wiseman Special Report Church Treasures of Cyprus by Mark Rose Multimedia Power Places by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak At the Museums Thracian Glitter by Susan I. Rotroff Books Here's Looking at You by Wijnand Van Der Sanden Forum Corpse in the Curiosity Shop by Andrew L. Slayman

Appeasing the Volcano Gods   Civil War in the West   Here's Looking at You

Newsbriefs Gallo-Roman Sarcophagi Find, Mesoamerica's Oldest Ballcourt, Arabian Hoard, Unidroit Ratified, Emerald Man, Israel's Oldest Synagogue WINE FOR ETERNITY How molecular archaeologists identified the contents of vessels found in the tomb of an Egyptian king. by Patrick E. McGovern APPEASING THE VOLCANO GODS Ancient altars attest a 2,000-year-old veneration of Mexico's smoldering Popocatépetl. by Patricia Plunket and Gabriela Uruñuela RIDDLE OF GREAT ZIMBABWE The largest construction south of the Sahara continues to fuel scholarly debate. Why was it built? No one seems to agree. by Roderick J. McIntosh CIVIL WAR IN THE WEST A cruise through Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama underscores the role of rivers in the Union's defeat of the Confederacy. by Jessica E. Saraceni

Photos, from top: Stone head representing Popocatépetl from Mexican household shrine (John O'Leary); Pittsburg Landing during the Battle of Shiloh (Massachusetts Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the U.S. Army Military History Institute); initial layers in the facial reconstruction of a bog body (Courtesy Wijnand Van Der Sanden)

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