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    Oct 08, 2020 3 minutes

    A SPECTACULAR SETTING

    Your September/October 2020 issue is just packed full of wonderful articles accompanied by excellent photos. Please ask the archaeologists working at Dukki Gel (“A Nubian Kingdom Rises”) what the structures pictured on page 30 are. I have been a subscriber for decades and have never seen blocks of small round objects, U-shaped forms, circles with lobes, et cetera, in any ancient city.

    Barbara A. Welch Ruckersville, VA

    Matt Stirn replies:

    This type of curved architecture is fairly

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