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Enjoy these additional images from ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries of 2023. Image 1 is from "A Painted Prayer." Images 2–4 are from "Sacred Spring." Images 5 and 6 are from "Magical Mesoamerican Relics." Images 7–9 are from "The Fiddler's Theater." Images 10 and 11 are from "Cave of Swords." And image 12 is from "Earliest Carpenters."

A painting of Jesus Christ thought to date to the thirteenth century was discovered in a small room below a sixteenth-century house in Old Dongola, once the capital of the medieval Kingdom of Makuria (ca. A.D. 400–1400). (Courtesy Adrian Chlebowski/PCMA UW)
Aerial view of the thermal baths and sanctuary at San Casciano dei Bagni (Italy Soprintendenza ABAP per le province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo and Comune di San Casciano dei Bagni, Courtesy Jacopo Tabolli)
One of the 14 large bronze statues found at the sanctuary of San Casciano dei Bagni (Italy Soprintendenza ABAP per le province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo and Comune di San Casciano dei Bagni, Courtesy Jacopo Tabolli)
A bronze statue of a young boy excavated in San Casciano dei Bagni (Italy Soprintendenza ABAP per le province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo and Comune di San Casciano dei Bagni, Courtesy Jacopo Tabolli)
Archaeologists excavate a stone chest in the Templo Mayor, at the heart of the Aztec, or Mexica, capital of Tenochtitlan. (Photograph Mirsa Islas, courtesy Proyecto Templo Mayor)
The stone chest was found to contain anthropomorphic figurines made of serpentine that archaeologists believe were buried in the year 1 Rabbit, or 1454, at least 1,000 years after they had been made by the Mezcala people, who were based some 200 miles from Tenochtitlan. (Photograph Mirsa Islas, courtesy Proyecto Templo Mayor)
A Roman brick from the emperor Nero’s theater dates to the era of the Julio-Claudian emperors. (Courtesy Soprintendenza Speciale Roma)
Highly decorative Roman column capital from Nero’s theater (Courtesy Soprintendenza Speciale Roma)
Multicolored marble columns from Nero’s theater (Courtesy Soprintendenza Speciale Roma)
Archaeologists in the cave in Israel’s Ein Gedi Nature Reserve where four ancient Roman swords were found (Photography Matan Toledano, Israel Antiquities Authority)
The complex cave system in Ein Gedi Nature Reserve (Photography Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority)
Archaeologists excavate at a site on the bank of Zambia’s Kalambo River where they have discovered the world’s earliest known wooden architecture. (Courtesy Larry Barham)

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