Top 10 Discoveries of 2021

Features January/February 2022

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds
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  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2021 January/February 2022

    Golden City

    Luxor, Egypt

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    World’s First Artists

    Quesang Hot Spring, Tibet

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    (Courtesy David Zhang)
  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2021 January/February 2022

    Earliest Leatherworkers

    Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco

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    (Contrebandiers Project 2009)
  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2021 January/February 2022

    The First Americans

    White Sands, New Mexico

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    (Dan Odess, Courtesy National Park Service)
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    Oldest Animal Art

    Northern Saudi Arabia

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    (Courtesy Guillaume Charloux, French National Center for Scientific Research)
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    Bronze Age Map

    Leuhan, France

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    (© Denis Gliksman, INRAP)
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    Rare Boundary Marker

    Rome, Italy

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    (Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali)
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    When the Vikings Crossed the Atlantic

    Newfoundland, Canada

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    (Wolfgang Kaehler/Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Top 10 Discoveries of 2021 January/February 2022

    Crusader Mass Grave

    Sidon, Lebanon

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    (Allen Brown/Alamy Stock Photo)
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    Slave Tag

    Charleston, South Carolina

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    (College of Charleston)
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    More From 2021's Top 10 Discoveries

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  • Artifacts November/December 2021

    Middle Bronze Age Flask

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    (Roberto Ceccacci)
  • Around the World November/December 2021

    JAPAN

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    (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Digs & Discoveries November/December 2021

    Identifying the Unidentified

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  • Features November/December 2021

    When Isis Was Queen

    At the ancient Egyptian temples of Philae, Nubians gave new life to a vanishing religious tradition

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    (Waj/Shutterstock)