List of illustrations, List of contributors, Introduction: Archaeology matters, 1 Archaeology, politics and the cultural heritage of Cyprus, 2 The past is ours: images of Greek Macedonia, 3 Contests of heritage and the politics of preservation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 4 Bulgarian archaeology: ideology, sociopolitics and the exotic, 5 Ideology and archaeology in Turkey, 6 The past as passion and play: Catalhoeyuk as a site of conflict in the construction of multiple pasts, 7 Beirut's memorycide: hear no evil, see no evil, 8 Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past, 9 Whose game is it anyway? The political and social transformations of American Biblical Archaeology Neil Asher, 10 The Gulf Arab states and their archaeology, 11 Memorabilia: archaeological materiality and national identity in Egypt, 12 Ancient Egypt in America: claiming the riches, Index
