The 68-page November/December 2020 issues' cover story is: Alcohol Across the Ages - How the magic of fermentation has transformed the human experience.
Other featured articles include:
The Great Wall of Mongolia - A nomadic medieval dynasty constructed a 450-mile barrier to help manage their sprawling empire.
Canada's Forgotten Capital - Beneath the streets of Old Montreal the rubble of a short-lived Parliament building offers a glimpse into a young country's growing pains.
In the Reign of The Sun King - Old Kingdom pharaohs faced a reckoning that reshaped Egypt's balance of power.
Weaving for Their Ancestors - For 1,000 years, the Paracas people of Peru expressed their vivid conception of life and death through textiles.
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Letter
From the President
Letters - Flying over Alcatraz, medieval clergy privileges, a Nubian education, and childhood memories of D-Day.
Digs & Discoveries - Bronze Age mini-pigs, rock art stencils, Romans on the Rhone, Paleolithic bedding, and the healing temples of ancient Greece.
Around the World - Poison projectiles, Cortes' Mexico City abode, Peruvian pelican fertilizer, and solving a Crusader mystery.
Artifact - Turning over a new leaf
Letter From Israel - The Price of Purple - Archaeologists have found new evidence of a robust dye industry that endured on the Mediterranean coast for millennia.
Cover - Third-century A.D. mosaic depicting a drinking contest between Hercules and Dionysus.
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