Archaeology Odyssey: The Archive (1998–2006)

This collection of issues includes more than 200 articles and 1,500 full-color photos, as well as numerous maps, plans, drawings and time-lines.

• "Faking Etruria"
• "Alashiya Redux"
• "A Mesopotamian Feast"
• "Digs 2006: Odyssey’s Annual Roundup"
• "Editors’ Page: Italy Goes After American Museums"
• "Origins: Adding Up"
• "Past Perfect: Finding Akhenaten’s Daughter"
• "Horizons: Tikal"
• "Ancient Life: “Earthly Paradises”"

• "“Place of the Beautiful Ones”"
• "Ancient WMDs"
• "East Meets West"
• "Editors' Page: Indiana Jane"
• "Horizons: The Guardian Gods: Easter Island"
• "Ancient Life: Practical Papyrus"

• "Discovering Catalhoyuk"
• "Ancient WMDs"
• "Excavating Catalhoyuk"
• "Emulating Augustus"
• "Editors’ Page: Who Owns Archaeology?"
• "Origins: Quod Erat Demonstrandum"
• "Past Perfect: Sailing with Odysseus"
• "Horizons: Armies of the Night: Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum"
• "Ancient Life: Pharaoric Fanfare"

• "Asklepios Appears in a Dream"
• "How to Date a Pharaoh"
• "Gilgamesh—Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before"
• "Editors’ Page: Ages in Chaos?"
• "Past Perfect: New Etruscan Jewelry"
• "Horizons: The World's Western Edge: Skellig Michael"
• "Ancient Life: Need a Lift?"

• "Guarding the Holy Land"
• "Saved from Vesuvius"
• "Don’t Be Fooled!"
• "Cyprus & Alashiya"
• "Alashiya Rejoinder"
• "Editors’ Page: Archaeology Museums in Peril?<"/li>
• "Origins: Counting the Hours"
• "Past Perfect: Deciphering Darius"
• "Horizons: The Earth-Movers: Cahokia"
• "Ancient Life: Saffron"

• "Making (Up) History"
• "Why Darius Built Persepolis"
• "Death in Louisville, Roman Style"
• "Editors’ Page: Making the Book"
• "Past Perfect: The Bronze Horsemen"
• "Horizons: Angkor Wat: The Universe in Miniature"
• "Ancient Life: An Ancient Scourge"

• "How to Find a Brothel in Pompeii"
• "Letters from the Frontier"
• "Under Siege!"
• "Digs 2004"
• "Protecting Cultural Property"
• "Origins: Got Nytt År!"
• "Opening the Tomb of the Sacred Bull"
• "Ancient Life: Minting Maps"

• "The Minoans of Crete: Europe's Oldest Civilization"
• "Imagining the Minoans"
• "Excavating the Minoans"
• "Deciphering Cretan Scripts"
• "Augustus Takes the Cure"
• "Editors' Page: The Enemy of the Good"
• "Along the Nile"
• "Desert Fortresses"
• "Ancient Life: Cats"

• "Etruscan Women—Dignified, Charming, Literate and Free"
• "Is Homer Historical? An Archaeology Odyssey Interview"
• "The Cairo Museum"
• "Roman Latrines"
• "Editors’ Page: A Virtual Cornucopia"
• "Origins: Tuning Up"
• "When the Reindeer-Hunters Came to Cro-Magnon"
• "Ancient Life: Desert Fruit"

• "When the Games Began"
• "Walking to Olympia"
• "The Other Games"
• "Ancient Combat Sports"
• "A Flame that Burns"
• "Among the Gods"
• "Sustaining Ka"

• "Narmer’s Enigmatic Palette"
• "Uncovering Nineveh"
• "Birth of Narrative Art"
• "TV Archaeology"
• "Losing Iraqi Antiquities for Good"
• "Filthy Lucre"
• "Past Perfect: 3-D, 19th Century Style"
• "Ancient Life: Tying the Knot"

• "Antiquity’s High Holy Place"
• "Death at Halmyris"
• "Going, Going, Going, Gone!"
• "Mesopotamia in Us"
• "Past Perfect: Unearthing the Fayum Paintings"
• "Destinations: Beneath Malta"
• "Ancient Life: The Cruelest Cat"

• "Sailing Open Seas"
• "Exploring the Deep"
• "The Naked and the Nude"
• "Editors' Page: Is Silence Golden?"
• "Origins: History's History"
• "Past Perfect: In the Footsteps of Pausanias"
• "Ancient Life: Come Down, Placenta!"

• "Stone Age Death Masks"
• "Neolithic Sites with Plaster Skulls"
• "Ferocious Elegance"
• "Villages of Stone: Sardinians in Israel?"
• "Editors' Page: Looting by Bulldozer"
• "Past Perfect: Reading the Rosetta Stone"
• "Destinations: Oases in Time"
• "Ancient Life: Heavens!"

• "Warrions, Wolves, and Women"
• "Drowning the Past"
• "Romantic Interlude"
• "Editors' Page: Beyond the Great Sea"
• "Origins: Reasons to Believe"
• "Past Perfect: Among Syrian Ruins"
• "Ancient Life: Liquid Gold"

• "Plundering the Past"
• "The Destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria"
• "Excavating Hollywood"
• "Death at Kourion"
• "Editors' Page: Crossing Over on Cyprus"
• "Past Perfect: In Defense of the Realm"
• "City of Obelisks"
• "Ancient Life: Childhood's End"

• "Iraq Update"
• "Traveling the Silk Road"
• "Old Samarkand"
• "Male Fantasies"
• "Editors' Page: Ransoming Iraqi Artifacts"
• "Origins: Taking Count"
• "Past Perfect: Among the Vulgarians"
• "Ancient Life: The High Life"

• "Sacred Precincts"
• "Mankillers"
• "The Mystery of Theoderic's Tomb Solved!"
• "Editors' Page: Why Not Work with Salvors?"
• "Past Perfect: In a Dry Country"
• "Destinations: Old as the Hills"
• "Ancient Life: The Eyes Have It"

• "Nawamis of Sinai"
• "Italy's Top Antiquities Cops Fight Back"
• "Warriors of Hatti"
• "Editors' Page: Protecting Archaeological Sites"
• "Origins: Signs of Life"
• "Past Perfect: Sacred Shadows"
• "Ancient Life: The Dog-Demon"

• "The Amman Citadel: An Archaeological Biography"
• "Plundering Iraq"
• "Sea Monsters and Other Ancient Beasts"
• "Editors' Page: Images that Offend"
• "Past Perfect: Into the Afterlife"
• "Destinations: Sailing the Wine-dark Seas"
• "Ancient Life: Shooting the Moon"

• "The Shaft Tombs of Abusir"
• "The Iconography of Power"
• "Climbing Vesuvius"
• "Iphigenia & Isaac"
• "Editors' Page: The State of the Profession"
• "Origins: On the Pill"
• "Past Perfect: The Ridiculous and the Sublime"
• "Ancient Life: Crowning Glory"

• "Archaeology Odyssey’s 10 Most Endangered Sites"
• "Fakes!"
• "My Blood of the Covenant"
• "Book Review: Cyprus’ Jewel by the Sea"
• "Editors’ Page: Excavating the Deep"
• "Origins: One, Two…Three"
• "Past Perfect: In the Here and Now"
• "Ancient Life: Sailing the Desert"

• "Cypriot Land Mines"
• "Guardians of Tamassos"
• "Was She Really Stoned?"
• "Editors’ Page: Peering into the Past"
• "Past Perfect: On Terra Sancta"
• "Destinations: The Impregnable Rock of Van"
• "Ancient Life: Letter Perfect"

• "A Subterranean Odyssey"
• "The Birth of Kinship"
• "Europe Confronts Assyrian Act"
• "Vestal Virgins"
• "Editors’ Page: AIA: Senator Moynihan Supports Antiquities Collector as Payoff for Campaign Contributions"
• "Origins: …And by the People"
• "Past Perfect: In Undiscovered Country"
• "Ancient Life: Comic Relief?"

• "Freud"
• "Ephesus Uncovered"
• "How to Reduce Archaeological Looting"
• "Ideology from Artifacts"
• "Editors’ Page: Publish Unprovenanced Artifacts"
• "Past Perfect: Over the Bounding Main"
• "Destinations: City of the Dead"
• "Ancient Life: The Life of the Fairer Sex"

• "City of Myth"
• "When a Mittani Princess Joined Pharaoh's Harem"
• "Debunking the Copy Myth"
• "Civilizing the Frontier"
• "Editors’ Page: The Two Faces of AIA"
• "Origins: And the Verdict Is…"
• "Past Perfect: The Day the Earth Shook"
• "Ancient Life: Into the Deep"

• "Alexander in the East"
• "Imagining Buddha"
• "The Buddhas of Bamiyan"
• "Leptis Magna"
• "Editors' Page: Ransom Them!"
• "Past Perfect: Dominique Vivant Denon"
• "Destinations: The Twin Temples of Gozo"
• "Ancient Life: Teitu vs. Latithe"

• "When Civilization Collapsed"
• "What Triggered the Collapse?"
• "Eros in Egypt"
• "The Fihrist"
• "Editors’ Page: Defining Ethics"
• "Origins: First Glass"
• "Past Perfect: The Omphalos and the Oracle"
• "Ancient Life: Temple Dancers"

• "King Midas: From Myth to Reality"
• "When We Arrived"
• "Excavating the Land of Sheba"
• "Editors’ Page: Why Publish Porn?"
• "Past Perfect: On a Cook’s Tour"
• "Destinations: Gateway to Africa"
• "Ancient Life: Roman Haute Cuisine"

• "No Guts, No Glory"
• "The Roman Amphora"
• "Canceled!"
• "Editors’ Page: Thousands of Cypriot Figurines"
• "Origins: Fixing the Millennium"
• "Past Perfect: Under a Desert Sky"
• "Destinations: The Oasis of Amun Siwa, Egypt"
• "Ancient Life: Bull Jumping"

• "Salt from the Garamantes"
• "Making the Desert Bloom"
• "Sacred Sex in the Hittite Temple of Yazilikaya"
• "Beirut Museum Survives"
• "Editors’ Page: Thousands of Cypriot Figurines"
• "Origins: 3.14159265…"
• "Past Perfect: Beneath the Pyramids"
• "Destinations: The Gateway to Hell"
• "Ancient Life: Just Swill!"

• "The Yarwhosians?"
• "My Life’s Shattered Work!"
• "Eternal Architecture"
• "The Right Kind of Multiculturalism"
• "Editors’ Page: AIA Does Dallas"
• "Past Perfect: On the Road to Paradise"
• "Destinations: City of Marble"
• "Ancient Life: Ancient Egyptian Dreambook"

• "When People Lived at Petra"
• "Gilgamesh"
• "Realms of Silver and Gold"
• "Editors’ Page: Time and Change"
• "Origins: The First Act"
• "Past Perfect: Into the Labyrinth"
• "Destinations: In Pursuit of the Elusive Bird Mosaic"
• "Ancient Life: Babylocentricity"

• "When Crusader Kings Ruled Jerusalem"
• "The Holiest Ground in the World"
• "Mummies"
• "Colossal Enigmas"
• "Editors’ Page: Contemporary Resonances"
• "Past Perfect: A Day in the Life"
• "Destinations: The Long Voyage Home"
• "Ancient Life: Greek Fire"

• "Were Living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? No"
• "Were Living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? Yes"
• "Carthage Must Be Destroyed"
• "After the Flood!"
• "Polyglot Antioch"
• "Editors’ Page: The Circumference or the Center"
• "Origins: The Horoscope Casters"
• "Past Perfect: Beneath the Flooding Darkness"
• "Destinations: The Enchanted Island"
• "Ancient Life: Water Music"

• "Opium for the Masses"
• "The Enigma of Hatshepsut"
• "Floating in the Desert"
• "Editors’ Page: Two Artists in Our Midst"
• "Origins: Let the Games Begin!"
• "Past Perfect: From Rome to Brindisi"
• "Destinations: Swimming the Hellespont"
• "Ancient Life: What, No Corkscrew?"

• "The Great MFA Exposé"
• "Bought on the Market"
• "The Master from Apulia"
• "Who Really Built the Pyramids?"
• "Editors’ Page: When Past is Prologue"
• "Origins: You Can Look It Up!"
• "Past Perfect: Under the Volcano"
• "Destinations: Kourion, Cyprus"
• "Ancient Life: Tut-tut!"

• "Priam’s Treasure"
• "Who Owns Priam’s Treasure?: An Odyssey Debate"
• "Priam’s Treasure in Boston?"
• "Heinrich Schliemann, Improbable Archaeologist"
• "Monotheism"
• "Editors’ Page: Why Buy Looted Antiquities?"
• "Origins: Interesting Developments"
• "Past Perfect: On a Mission from God"
• "Destinations: The Valley of the Tombs, Palmyra, Syria"
• "Ancient Life: Table Manners?"

• "Shipwreck!"
• "Recovered!"
• "Architecture of Infinity"
• "Editors’ Page: How to Stop Looting"
• "Origins: A Codex Moment"
• "Past Perfect: Reinventing Antiquity"
• "Destinations: Kerkouane, Tunisia"
• "Ancient Life: A Venerable Keepsake"

• "Sons of God"
• "A Great Empire's Beating Heart"
• "The Image Destroyers"
• "Littoral Truths"
• "Editors' Page: Let's Do What We Can"
• "Past Perfect:Away from the Big Top"
• "Destinations: Sounion, Greece"
• "Ancient Life: Comic Relief"

• "Can Archaeology Discover Homer’s Troy?"
• "Searching for the Historical Homer"
• "Reading Homer After 2,800 Years"
• "The Semites or the Greeks?"
• "A Different View"
• "Invoking the Spirit"
• "Editors’ Page: Come Learn with Us"
• "Origins: In One Era and Out the Other"
• "Past Perfect: Into the Etruscan Depths"
• "Destinations: Alba Fucens, Italy"
• "Ancient Life: Aerobics, Roman Style"

• "Leave the Marbles Where They Are!"
• "Bring the Marbles Home!"
• "Lord Elgin’s Marbles"
• "In Pharaoh’s Footsteps"
• "The Birth of Adonis?"
• "Architecture of the Afterlife"
• "Editors’ Page: Repatriating Antiquities?"
• "Origins: Ptolemy Charts the World"
• "Past Perfect: Excavating Nimrud"
• "Destinations: Butrint, Albania"
• "Ancient Life: Thinning Out?"

• "The Etruscans"
• "Grape Pips, Dog Bones and Acorn Missiles"
• "Welcome to the World of Magic!"
• "Plundering the Sacred"
• "Editors’ Page: Between Scylla and Charybdis"
• "Origins: A Cure for the Common Cold?"
• "Past Perfect: An Artist in an Antique Land"
• "Destinations: Myra, Turkey"
• "Ancient Life: Tubing on the Euphrates"

• "The Cave-Dwellers"
• "Monasteries?"
• "This is the Taste of Death"
• "Death in Peqi’in"
• "Editors’ Page: A Bimonthly It Is!"
• "Origins: Inventing Time"
• "Past Perfect: A Novelist Among the Ruins"
• "Destinations: Conimbriga, Portugal"
• "Ancient Life: Toilet Training"