Table of Contents	Volume 52 Number 2, March/April 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 The "Princess" of Ipatovo, Hominid Discovery, Cattle Save Sculpture, Jamestown's First Lady, Neandertal Finds, Pot of Gold, Earliest Egyptian Glyphs, Prehistoric Miami, Early Portuguese Burial, Phiale Appeal Heard, Bronze & Brass Hoard From the President 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 by Brian Fagan Books Murder, They Wrote by Amy Lubelski Multimedia Adventures in Africa by Lawrence H. Robbins Forum Summer on the River Styx by David and Noelle Soren

Suppression of the Cathars   People Illustrated   Murder, They Wrote

DIVING ON A SUNKEN CITY Ancient Alexandria yields a wealth of pharaonic and Ptolemaic sculpture. by Jean-Yves Empereur MAPPING ALEXANDRIA'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

Photos, from top: The medieval town of Carcassonne (James Wiseman); drawing of tattooed man (Ray Bartkus; tattoos by Adrienne Mayor); illustration (Ray Bartkus)

January/February 1999 | May/June 1999

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