4 EDITOR’S LETTER
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Reindeer taxonomy, friendly dolphins, and
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Silk Road satellites, Caesar comes ashore,
China’s hydraulic engineers, a sphinx in the sand,
and Tut’s gold redux
24 WORLD ROUNDUP
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Little Foot the Australopithecus, and medieval
bishops’ bachelor pad
57 LETTER FROM HUNGARY
How archaeologists trying to locate the final resting
place of Suleiman the Magnificent uncovered the
remains of a crucial outpost of the Ottoman Empire
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