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Volume 229, No.2
Published by the National Geographic Society


Cover

Europe’s biggest archaeological dig is unfolding alongside the continent’s largest infrastructure project. As workers with London’s massive Crossrail project bore new subway tunnels beneath much of the city, scores of archaeologists are racing to keep up with the flood of discoveries that are revealing the layer cake of history long hidden beneath the city’s busy streets. Imagine the visual possibilities of an archaeology-themed story that encompasses long sweeps of London’s past but uses the modern city as a counterpoint to the workings and discoveries below.


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