Table of Contents	Volume 52 Number 4, September/October 1999

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

In This Issue Newsbriefs Cover-up at City Hall?, Early Indus Script, Three-Ring Stonehenge, Etruscan Find, Kennewick VI: The Saga Continues, Human Footprints at Chauvet Cave, Steinhardt Loses Appeal, Looters Foiled From the President Insight Legacy of Medieval Serbia by James Wiseman American Scene Much Ado About a Circle by Jerald T. Milanich Books Journey into Antiquity by Robert E. Murowchick At the Museums Window on Pompeii by Angela M.H. Schuster Multimedia Compendium of Black History by Robert L. Douglas

Oasis of the Dead   Legacy of Medieval Serbia   Window on Pompeii

DATING THE PYRAMIDS How tiny organic bits in the ancient gypsum mortar offer evidence of age, as well as clues to the fabric of Egyptian life. by Members of the David H. Koch Pyramids Radiocarbon Project NAPOLEON'S LOST FLEET Divers discover what really happened at the Battle of the Nile. by Angela M.H. Schuster OASIS OF THE DEAD Roman-era tombs southwest of Cairo yielded scores of gilded mummies. by Zahi Hawass MYTH OF THE HUNTER-GATHERER The lives of ancient foragers were not always "nasty, brutish, and short." by Kenneth M. Ames HIGH-TECH "DIGGING" Fifty years of technical innovation have revolutionized the practice of archaeology. by Christopher Scarre Forum Brochureworld by Howard Clarke

Photos, from top: Mummy mask (Philippe Plailly); Church of the Virgin at Studenitsa (James Wiseman); panel of cameo glass from Pompeii (Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei)

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