Table of Contents	Volume 54 Number 2, March/April 2001

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

In This Issue Modern-Day Argonaut by Peter A. Young From the President Mycenae Gets the Gold by Nancy C. Wilkie Newsbriefs Legacy of War; Egyptian Toe Job; Last Minute Monuments; Taíno Cave Art Under Siege; Corinth Loot Returned; Dam Shame; Fate of the Titanic; Celebrated Rock Art; Bad, Bad Boudicca; Seljuk Silver; Shakespeare Slept Here; Competing Claims on Buddha's Hometown; Phallic Cult Insight Timeless Verses by James Wiseman American Scene Diving Lake Champlain by Jerry Shine At the Museums Cloning Altamira by Paul G. Bahn Books Tracking the Tarim Mummies by David W. Anthony Multimedia Scrolling through Olympus by Nicholas Nicastro Cyberceramics by Angela M.H. Schuster

Gifts of the Desert  A Vanished El Dorado  Telling Time  Letter from Israel

LAND OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE Legendary Colchis lives on in the Republic of Georgia. by Kristin M. Romey TELLING TIME By reading the rings of pines as old as the earliest pharaohs, Henry Michael has changed the way we look at the past. by Tom Gidwitz GIFTS OF THE DESERT Natural rock formations in the Sahara may have been the inspiration for the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. by Farouk El-Baz A VANISHED EL DORADO Splendid baroque facades in a tangle of trees and vines attest a unique union of Jesuit priests and native tribes in the heart of South America. by Jeremy Main GALLIC BLOOD RITES Excavations of sanctuaries in northern France support ancient literary accounts of violent Gallic rituals. by Jean-Louis Brunaux SPECIAL REPORT Deepest Wreck by Brett Phaneuf, Thomas Dettweiler, and Thomas Bethge LETTER FROM ISRAEL The Gospels' Holiest Shrine by Elizabeth J. Himelfarb Forum Sick? Try Sleeping by Dale Mackenzie Brown

Photos, from top: Pyramid at Giza (Farouk El-Baz); clock tower of San Miguel mission (Carlos Mordo); Henry Michael (Shelley Michael); interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Elizabeth J. Himelfarb)

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