Venice’s long war with rising water

Archaeologists trace Venice’s quest to stay dry.

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Albert J. Ammerman
Colgate University
Department of Classics
Hamilton, NY 13346

Rafael L. Bras
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Room 1-290
Cambridge, MA 02139

Charles E. McClennen
Colgate University
Department of Geology
Hamilton, NY 13346

Daniel J. Stanley
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
Mediterranean Basin Program
Washington, DC 20560

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 4, July 24, 1999, p. 63. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.