Table of Contents	Volume 58 Number 6, November/December 2005

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

Features Under Downtown Prague The Czech Republic's biggest excavation reveals layers of history. by Nick Holdsworth Diving into History The National Park Service's elite team of underwater archaeologists safeguards our nation's sunken treasures. by Julian Smith When Giants Roamed the Earth In the golden age of hoaxes, petrified men came to life. by Mark Rose Temple of the Sun Celebrating 100 years of excavation at Mexico's Teotihuacan by Jorge Pérez de Lara Where was Jesus Born? Theologians question biblical accounts of the Nativity. Now archaeologists are doing the same. by Aviram Oshri

Departments In This Issue Questions about Jesus' Birthplace by Peter A. Young From the President Tell it to the Marines...  Teaching troops about cultural heritage by Jane C. Waldbaum News Napoleon's soldiers in Belarus, a well-preserved underwater forest, preindustrial polluters, drug addicts dig arrowheads, and King David's palace--perhaps Conversations String Theorist  Gary Urton unties one knot in the puzzle of khipu, the undeciphered accounting system used by the Inca Empire Reviews The best of books on Iraq, a Roman defeat in Germany, boozing in a boomtown, the origins of sacred kingship among the Maya, seeking Shangri-la, and editors' picks Letter From Florida Homeless Collections What happens to artifacts when they have no place to go? by Jerald T. Milanich

On the Cover: Standing three and one-half inches tall, this female clay figure from the great Mexican city of Teotihuacan (A.D. 200-650) is depicted wearing a huipil, a traditional Mesoamerican blouse still worn today. (Photograph by Justin Kerr)

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