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Volume 49 Number 6, November/December 1996
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In This Issue
A Tempting Document
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A curious manuscript may hold the key to Andean writing. But is it real? By Peter
A. Young
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From the President
Seeking New Sources of Support
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The NEH's archaeological unit has been eliminated, largely cutting off Old World
archaeology from federal support. By Stephen L. Dyson
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Letters
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Fort Caroline or Charlesfort?; Happy Birthday Jerusalem?; Hitler's Olympic Torch;
The Tragedy of Beirut; Flip of the Coin.
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Insight
Window on Ancient Maritime Commerce
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A shipwreck off Spain's Costa Brava yields clues to Roman commerce. By James
Wiseman
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At the Museums
Gallery In Situ
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Copán's new museum, which includes a replica of a 1,400-year-old temple
known as Rosalila built in an atrium open to the sky, highlights sculptural treasures
and a sophisticated Maya cosmology. Reviewed by Angela M.H. Schuster
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Books
Digging the Rose and Globe
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A new study reassesses Elizabethan playhouses. The Archaeology of
Shakespeare: The Material Legacy of Shakespeare's Theatre. By Jean Wilson.
211 pages. Stroud, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd., 1995. ISBN 0-7509-0926-9. Available from Books International, P.O. Box 605, Herndon, VA 20172-0605,
tel. 703-661-1586. $35.95. Reviewed by Ricardo J. Elia.
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Multimedia
Mummies Old and New
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Ancient "mysteries" from A&E and an experimental re-creation.
Mummies and the Wonders of Ancient Egypt. 1996. Four one-hour
episodes produced by the Arts & Entertainment Network in associateion with
Greystone Communications, Inc. Purchase, $59.95 from A&E, 800-423-1212. Resurrection of an Ancient Art: Mummification. 1994. A 48-minute video
produced by Thomas H. Wood. Purchase, $24.95 from T.H. Wood, P.O. Box 65, Merion Station, PA 19066-0065, tel. 610-667-0158. Add $3 shipping for U.S., $4 other Americas, $6 Europe, $8 Asia and Africa. Add 6 percent sales tax if shipped to PA. Reviewed by Robert S. Bianchi.
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Forum
Murder in Memphis
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Did the Persian emperor Cambyses (sixth century B.C.) in
fact murder the Egyptians' sacred Apis bull, as Herodotus reports. By Leo Depuydt
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