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Tainan & Taipei, Taiwan
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Tainan, Taiwan’s former capital on the south-western coast. In 1624, the Dutch East India Company established their presence on Taiwan (then Dutch Formosa) with a base in Anping, a leafy suburb
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John Shepherd
When was your first real dig? I was aged nine when I was taken to my first excavation, after my father saw I had an interest in archaeology. In the 1980s I became a research assistant to Professor WF Grimes, who had excavated parts of London after th
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The Azores
Scattered across over 600km of ocean, rising from the seabed at the three-way meeting point of the North American, Eurasian and African tectonic plates, the nine volcanic islands of the Azores are pitted with ancient craters and collapsed cones, scul

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