12 9 26 14 DEPARTMENTS 4 EDITOR'S LETTER 61 LETTER FROM SINGAPORE The founding mythology of this city-state was once thought to be pure fiction-archaeology says otherwise 6 FROM THE PRESIDENT 8 LETTERS 9 FROM THE TRENCHES BY VAISHNAVI CHANDRASHEKHAR 72 ARTIFACT A face from the past Tower tombs in the desert, a frozen arctic maiden, Denisovan DNA, moon runes, and Etruscan beekeepers 30 WORLD ROUNDUP Viking cod exports, Bronze Age cereal box, Commodore Perry's Revenge, Easter Island ecology, and Zanzibar's colonial past ARCHAEOLOGY.ORG ■ ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS Get daily headlines from around the world, and sign up for our e-Update. ■ FOLLOW US ■ INTERACTIVE interactivedigs.com. archaeology.org DIGS Track ongoing work at 3http://www.ARCHAEOLOGY.ORG https://www.facebook.com/archaeologymag https://twitter.com/archaeologymag http://www.interactivedigs.com http://www.archaeology.org