Contents
June/July 2009
Issue 35
UP FRONT
6 READERS WRITE Before the Dawn; underwater waste; Babylon; the Aegean; work on WW2?; Yemeni stones; Hawaii; backpage.
8 WORLD NEWS Latest archaeological news and research.
13 LISTINGS Exhibitions from around the world.
14 DIGGING DEEPER News extra from Brian Fagan.
COVER STORY FEATURES
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18 PERU GOLD FEVER: THE TOMBS OF THE LORDS OF SIPÁN Nadia Durrani investigates the unplundered tombs of the Moche culture 'Lords of Sipan', who were buried with dazzling splendour in the early centuries AD.
31 ROMAN EMPIRE ROMAN FRONTIERS: ON THE EDGES OF EMPIRE The world's largest archaeological site - the former frontiers of Rome's great Empire - is to be given World Heritage Site status. David Breeze explains why.
38 THAILAND THE ARISTOCRATS OF BAN NON WAT: BRONZE AGE SUPERBURIALS Inside report on the newly-uncovered Bronze Age elite burials of Ban Non Wat.
44 MOON ASTROARCHAEOLOGY: LOST IN SPACE The final frontier for archaeological exploration? David Miles examines the effects of human forays into outer space - and looks at the detritus left behind.
REGULARS
TRAVEL 48 PERU: Second part of the Peru Special - the Moche Route of the Northern coast in more depth. 56 POSTCARD: Richard Hodges obsesses over Medieval Comacchio, Italy. 60 ON SITE INSIGHTS: David Turner tours Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.
REVIEWS 62 EXHIBITION Galileo: Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope. 64 BOOKS Bones, Rocks and Stars: the science of when things happen; Ice, Mud and Blood: lessons from climates past; The Architecture of Roman Temples: the Republic to the Middle Empire; Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization.
56 www.world-archaeology.com
GREAT DISCOVERIES 66 GREAT FINDS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Great Zimbabwe: black African civilization.
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