Book 1: Archaeology Pride of the Minoans: Saving the Royal Palace of Knossos vol.52, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1999 Contents: Insight: The Muse Within Us: Poetic Visions of the Past by James Wiseman At the Museums: Otzi’s New Home: The 5,000 year-old ice man goes on exhibit in Bolzano, Italy. By Paul G. Bahn Books: Neolithic Noah: Are the claims of two geologists all wet? By Mark Rose Multimedia: Simulated Caesars: Computer games are entertaining, but what do we really learn about the past? By Nicholas Nicastro Forum: Faux Maya by Angela M. H. Schuster Saving Knossos: The struggle to preserve a landmark of Europe’s first great civilization by Spencer P. M. Harrington Treasures Of I Fucoli : A Tuscan hill town unveils its newly restored terra-cotta masterpieces. By Anna Rastrelli Horace’s Healing Spring: Scholars uncover a spa possibly patronized by the Roman poet. By David Soren and Frank Romer North America’s Vast Legacy: Fifty Years of a dramatic discoveries by David J. Meltzer The Search For The Earliest Americans by David J. Meltzer and Tom D. Dillehay Exploring South America: A unique laboratory for studying human cultural evolution. By Tom D. Dillehay   Book 2: Archaeology Egypt’s Sunken City: Raising Alexandria, Tatooing in Antiquity, Edmund Spenser’s Irish Castle. Vol.52, No. 2, Mar/April Content: Insight: Suppression of the Cathars: A fairy tale landscape in southern France belies a brutal crusade. By James Wiseman At the Museums: Art of the Shamans: A celebration of West Mexican sculpture. By Brian Fagan Books: Murder, They Wrote: Pharaoh did it, in the pyramid, with the crook and flail. By Amy Lubleski Mulltimedia: Adventures in Africa: A virtual tour of the Great Rift Valley by Lawrence H. Robbins Forum: Summer on the River Styx by David and Noelle Soren Diving On A Sunken City: Ancient Alexandria yields a wealth of pharaonic and Ptolemaic sculpture. By Jean-Yves Empereur Mapping Alexandra’s Royal Quarters by Angela M.H Schuster Castle of the Faerie Queene: Probing the ruins of Edmund Spenser’s Irish home by Eric Klingelhofer People Illustrated: In antiquity tattoos could beautify, shock, or humiliate. By Adrienne Mayor Images of Dynasty: China’s golden age of archaeology by Albert E. Dien Postal Propaganda: Promoting the present with the past by Clive Foss   Book 3:Archaeology Reclaiming the Bounty, Napoleon in Egypt, And Terror at Chaco Canyon: vol.52, No. 3, May/June 1999 Contents: Insight: Challenge of the Deep: An MIT conference assesses the new technology. By James Wiseman Books: Chaco Death Squids: Two new books address prehistoric warfare in the South West; one suggests a reign of terror by a warrior cult from Mexico. By Stephen H. Lekson At the Museums: The Parthenon Marbles Custody Case: Did British restores mutilate the famous sculptures? By Shareen Blair Brysac Multimedia: Is Archaeology Ready for Prime Time? Digging and discovery as mass entertainment. By Neil Asher Silberman Forum: Mood Music by David Soren Reclaiming the Bounty: Australian divers locate the famous ship in shallow waters off Pitcairn Island. By Nigel Erskine Napolean in Egypt: The general’s search for glory led to the birth of Egyptology. By Bob Brier Africa’s Storied Past: A “people without history” explore a vibrant precolonial landscape by Roderick J. McIntosh Images of the Spirit World: Rock art of the San people by J.D. Lewis-Williams Legacy Of Racism: South African archaeology emerges half a century of apartheid by Martin Hall   Book 4:Archaeology: In Search of Human Origins, Mycenaean Mystery Is Schliemann Mask a Fake?, Confederate Prisoners of War, Vol 52. No. 4, July/Aug 1999 Content: Insight: Encounters with Ali Pasha by James Wiseman Books: A Matter of Superior Spearpoints by Kenneth B. Tankersley At the Museums: A Walk through Time by Angela M. H. Schuster Multimedia: Frozen in the Past by Paul G. Baghn Forum: My Ghost Town by Jenny Attiyeh Rethinking Human Evolution: Modern Humans are no longer seen as the latest in a linear struggle toward perfection. By Ian Tattersall The Quest for Adam: The nature of human origins has been one of the most disputed issues of the past half-century. By Jean-Jacques Hublin Perspectives on the Past by Meave Leakey A Cache of Vintage Ships: Nine Roman vessels surface in downtown Pisa. By Andrew L. Slayman Doing Time: How Confederate POW’s weathered captivity by David R. Bush Behind The Mask of Agamenon: Experts debate: Is Schliemann’s famous find a modern-day forgery.   Book 5:Archaeology: Exclusive from Egypt, New Pyramid Dates!, Napoleon’s Lost Fleet, Valley of the Gilded Mummies. Vol 52. No. 5.Sept/Oct 1999 Contents: Insight: Legacy of Medieval Serbia by James Wiseman American Scene: Much Ado About a Circle: Could Miami’s heralded Indian site be a 1950’s septic tank drain? By Jerald T. Milanich At the Museums: Window on Pompeii by Angela M.H. Schuster Books: Journey into Antiquity by Robert E. Murowchick Multimedia: Compendium of Black History by Robert L. Douglass Forum: Brochureworld by Howard Clarke 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 yield 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   Book 6:Archaeology: Digging at Armageddon, Where Biblical History And Legend Meet,” And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and there was a great earthquake… - Revelation 16:18, Easter Islands Massive Statues Experiments in Hauling in a 9-ton Replica, Celebrating Egyptian Art. Vol 52. No.6, Nov/Dec 1999 Contents: American Scene: Lewis& Clarkiana: Devotees of the “Great Captains” hold their annual jamboree. By Jim Merritt Insight: The World’s Most Endangered Sites by James Wiseman At the Museums: Egypt in America by Angela M.H Schuster Multimedia: The Great Hopewell Mystery by Ronald Hicks Books: Beyond Clovis by Mark Rose Forum: YOK! YOK! YOK! By Anthony Aveni Digging At Armageddon: A new expedition tackles one of the Near East’s most famous and legends. By Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein, David Ussishkin, and Baruch Halpern Egineers of Easter Island: Archaeologists field test a theory of how the island’s colossal moai were moved. By Jo Anne Van Tilburg and Ted Ralston A Mill That Shaped A Nation: Industrial archaeology at Bethlehem Steel Text by Ralph Schwarz, photographs by Stephen Wilkes Listening To the Mill: Growing up in the shadow of “The Steel” by Roderick J. McIntosh Probing A Landscape of Death: A forensic anthropologist’s mission to recover and identify the victims of ethnic cleansing by Brenda Smiley