April/May 2022

Volume 10 | Number 4

REGULARS

UPFRONT 3 EDITOR’S LETTER 6 NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 10 NEWS FOCUS

Climate change and ancient civilisations 12 CHARLES HIGHAM

Seeking a legendary lost city 14 HORIZON

The House of the Harpist

TR AVEL 46 881: A 9TH-CENTURY FEUDAL CALAMITY

Richard Hodges explores the story of San Vincenzo al Volturno, Italy

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CULTURE 52 MUSEUM

Rus – Vikings in the East: a new exhibition at the Moesgaard Museum tells the story of the Rus Vikings 57 SPECIAL REPORT

Unwrapping Amenhotep I 58 REVIEWS

Religious Practice and Cultural Construction of Animal Worship in Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom; Olympia: a cultural history; Rock Art Studies: News of the World VI 60 CHRIS CATLING

DNA denouements and coining a phrase 62 FORUM

Letters, crossword, cartoon 65 THINKING ALOUD

Interpreting art 66 OBJECT LESSON

Scythian plate

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