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VOLUME 3 NUMBER 1

Ancient Chinese Gold

Editor-in-Chief
Jerome M Eisenberg
Editor
Peter Clayton
Managing Editor
Anna Lethbridge

Exquisite objects from recent finds

Patricia Jellicoe

Consultant
Archaeologist
Barn Jones
Contributing Editors
Stavros Aspropoulos
Jerry Theodorou
Publisher
David Kidd
Design
Anna Lethbridge

In Pursuit of Bogius
On the trail of the Risley Park Roman
David Keys
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Viking Newsletter
New insights into Denmark's past
Christopher Follett

Ancient Jewellery & Archaeology

Conference report from Indiana
JerryTheodorou

Nubia in Oxford
The Ashmolean Museum's unique
Robert Morkot
collection
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Gold of the Helvetii

Switzerland's Celtic heritage
Catherine Milner

The Harer Collection of

Egyptian Antiquities
Glass in the Making
Five thousand years of glass
Kenneth Painter

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News
37 Numismatic New<

$8 Book Reviews

46 Calendar

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