Departments	Volume 52 Number 5, September/October 1999

In This Issue Prince of the Pyramids	Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian with a mission by Peter A. Young
From the President Politics and the Past	Archaeologists worldwide have only recently begun to confront the ways in which issues of ethnicity, nationalism, cultural identity, and politics have influenced their research. by Nancy C. Wilkie
Insight Legacy of Medieval Serbia	Masterpieces of art and architecture in the wake of war by James Wiseman
Books Journey into Antiquity	A Journey into China's Past, edited by Yu Weichao Reviewed by Robert E. Murowchick (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's bookstore for the latest list of new books.)
At the Museums Window on Pompeii	Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town Los Angeles County Museum of Art (October 17 through January 9, 2000) Reviewed by Angela M.H. Schuster (Check out ARCHAEOLOGY's latest list of museum exhibitions.)
Multimedia Compendium of Black History	Microsoft's Encarta Africana, edited by Henry L. Gates, Jr., and Kwame A. Appiah Reviewed by Robert L. Douglas
Forum Brochureworld	Better bring your life jacket along! On this Mediterranean Cruise, it's nothing but doomed civilizations--fact-sticklers beware. by Howard Clarke

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