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    Feb 03, 2020 2 minutes

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    he range of topics in the November/December 2019 issue was superb, and you hit some of my favorite subjects—Petra, Babylon, English sites. But my favorite article was “Artists of the Dark Zone.” Will Hunt exemplified, I feel, what archaeology is all about: taking an image, an object, something created by the hands of others in the near or

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