VOLUME 7 NUMBER 4

FOUNDER AND
EDITOR.INCHIEF
Jerome M.
Eisenberg, Ph.D

Beirut: Rediscovering the Past

Reconstruction provides a chance to
excavate Beirut
LUCY Lethbridge

MANAGING

EDITOR
Anna
Lethbridge M.A.

Splendours of Ancient Egypt

from Hildesheim

CONSULTING

Florida exhibition replacing the cancelled

loan from Cairo Museum Roberts. Bianchi

The Chauvet Cave: Theoldestcave

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paintings in the world

~ e a n - ~ a rChauvet,
ie

Eliette Brunei Deschamps, Christian Hillaire

Archaeology on China's Northern

Frontier
Beyond the Great Wall

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A Byzantine city during the Dark Ages

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The Ludovisi and Boston

Thrones: their 19th-century origins
JeromeM. ~

Magna Graecia: The Greeks in

the West

Stephen C. Rossi

Preah Khan: Conservation of a n

ancient temple site

Denise Heywood

New Roman London Gallery

Jenny Hall
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CONTRIBUTING
EDITORS
~r~oberts-~iallchi,
New York
DrLondon Reeves, F.S*A.
EDITORIAL ADVISORY
BOARD
DI l'ieter Meyers,
LO; A w l e s
Dr David Mitten,
Cambridge, Mci,
Kenneth Painter, M.A.,

prFAA
J; M;hael
don
Padgett,
Princeton
Dr Pratapaditya Pal,
Los Angeles

Amorium in Turkey

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EDITOR
peter clayton,
F.S.A.

Ancient Egyptian Mining

Jerome M. Eisenberg

CORRESPONDENTS
David Breslin, Dublin
fChristopher
~ ~ t Follett,
Copenhagen
Sean Kingsley, feriisfllem
Sybille Krause, Leipzig,
Gennany
Jean Pierre Montesino,
Part's
DI K.D. Politis, Afnfnflii,
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Jordan
Stephen C. Rossi,
Viareggio, Italy
Filippo Salviati, Rome
Laura Wynn, Litohom,
Greece

PUBLISHER
Jerome M.
Eisenberg, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE
PUBLISHER
Helen Beastall

Published in England
by the proprietor
Aurora Publications Ltd.,
London,
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Bond 3DB.
St,
Tel: (0171) 495 2590
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48 Book Reviews
61 Calendar

2 News
47 Numismatic News

IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES
The synagogue in the ancient world Greek and Roman sculpture;
in Boston The royal women of Amarna Geometric
diagrams of Homeric epic
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