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	AIA 10th Annual Archaeology Fair a Success! Visitors of all ages enjoyed archaeology with hands-on activities led by archaeologists, museum specialists, and other experts. Milwaukee Archaeology Fair March 5-6, 2010, the Milwaukee Society will be hosting an Archaeology Fair at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
	Join AIA Tours for Ancient Splendors of Turkey! March 16-28, 2010 Turkey's ancient sites are abundant and outstanding. Join us on this well-paced, 13-day land tour to discover spectacular ancient sites set amidst Turkey's magnificent Aegean and Mediterranean landscapes.
	Computer Animation Not Just for Video Games AIA Site Preservation Grant will help fund project to recreate a five-thousand-year-old Chalcolithic roundhouse in Cyprus using 3-D animation technology Protecting Banteay Chhmar A 12th-century temple complex in Cambodia, overrun by jungle growth and plagued by looters, is confronted with increased tourism
AIA 2009 Gala Wins "Best Overall Catering at an Event" in the Big Apple	ARCHAEOLOGY Receives Gold Medal Award On October 14, the President, Board of Governors, and Archaeology Committee of the National Arts Club awarded ARCHAEOLOGY, AIA's award-winning popular magazine, its medal of Honor. Click here for more about this event.

Dispatches from the AIA
Read about our efforts to preserve Easter Island's iconic moai statues, and an innovative archaeology program for high-school students in Belize.
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Felicia A. Holton Book Award
The AIA, in collaboration with the Center for American Archaeology, has established the Felicia A. Holton Book Award, which will be given annually to a writer who, through a major work of non-fiction, represented the importance and excitement of archaeology to the general public.

Order your copy of Archaeology Magazine's Ancient Egypt today! This limited edition issue brings together our best articles on the Land of the Nile! Ancient sites: The Valley of the Kings, Saqqara: City of the Dead New discoveries: Building the Great Pyramid, Scanning Mummies Pharaonic mysteries: Who's in Tomb 55?, Unknown Man E

AIA-MoS 3rd Annual Archaeology Fair
The 3rd Annual AIA-Boston Museum of Science Archaeology Fair was a huge success! School groups and visitors of all ages explored the past with archaeologists, museum specialists, and other experts.

January Issue of AJA Available!
Leonid Teodorovich Yablonsky explores a largely undisturbed Early Sarmatian burial ground in the Orenburg region of Russia. The burials date to around the fourth or fifth centuries B.C.E. and belong to the Early Sarmatian culture of the southern Ural region. The most significant burial contained goods of precious metals and examples of sophisticated Animal Style art, and provides important new information on burial ritual.
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