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Volume 29, Number 2

Summer 1987

Special Issue: Archaeological Facts and Fantasies

Cover: King Arthur and his knights setting out in search of the Holy Grail, from a 14th century Italian manuscript (Ms. Fr. 343 Fol. 8. Courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris).

Hard copies of this issue are sold out.





Features

Archaeology and Pseudo-Archaeology
Brian Fagan

The Cult of the Cave Bear--Prehistoric Rite or Scientific Myth?
Philip G. Chase

"Scholars Will Call It Nonsense"--The Structure of Erich von Daniken's Argument
Stephen M. Epstein

Atlantis Lost and Found--The Ancient Aegean from Politics to Volcanoes
Nicholas Hartmann

The Misusable Past--Facts and Fantasies in North American Archaeology
Bryce Little

Solomon, the Copper King--A Twentieth Century Myth
James D. Muhly

The Life and Times of King Arthur
Janice B. Klein

The Curse of the Curse of the Pharoahs
David Silverman

 

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