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Digs & Discoveries May/June 2024

(Courtesy Soprintendenza Archaeologica di Pompei)
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Enjoy these additional images from some of our May/June 2024 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from "Pompeian Politics." Image 2 is from "The Amazon's Urban Roots." Image 3 is from "Cleaning Out the Basement." Image 4 is from "Workhouse Woes." Image 5 is from "Turn of the Millennium Falcon." Image 6 is from "Speaking in Golden Tongues."

Ongoing excavations in the house of Pompeian political candidate Aulus Rustius Verus
A complex of rectangular earthen platforms at the site of Nijiamanch, which sits on a cliff along Ecuador’s Upano River, was part of a network of early urban communities in the Amazon that Indigenous people built beginning around 2,500 years ago.
Conservators apply an adhesive layer of silicone rubber to a complete Roman-era cellar in Heddernheim, Germany, before removing it to the local archaeology museum.
While excavating the remnants of London’s St. Pancras workhouse, archaeologists uncovered flooring made with sandstone from Yorkshire in rooms that they believe served as overseers’ living quarters and offices.
An X-ray of rib bones of a gyrfalcon whose partial skeleton was discovered in a well at the citadel of Karabalgasun in central Mongolia shows signs of healed fractures, indicating that the gyrfalcon was a captive bird that people cared for.
In the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, two empty stone sarcophagi were found in an underground tomb dating to between 332 and 30 B.C.

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