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Fabrizia Lanza is the owner and director of the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School located on her family’s 200-year-old agricultural estate in the heart of Sicily.

Are the Rebel Alliance headquarters on Yavin 4 similar to the Mayan pyramids? Should the crumbling film sets of Tataouine that still stand in the Tunisian desert be considered an archaeological monument?

Louise Schofield has been working in Ethiopia since 2006, directing archaeological, conservation and development projects in that extraordinary country.  The search for the Queen of Sheba brought her to her current site in Tigray, northeastern Ethiopia.

Judith Baumel is a poet, critic and translator.  She is Professor of English and was Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi University.  She lectures on modern and contemporary American poetry at Oxford University, UK.  A former director of the Poetry Society of America, her