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January/February 2022

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Enjoy these additional images of some of this year's top 10 discoveries.

Ceramic vessel with hieroglyphs, Golden City, Luxor, Egypt (Courtesy Zahi Hawass)
Pierced Nassarius snail shells, possibly strung together with leather cord, Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco (Courtesy Esteban Álvarez-Fernández)
Ca. 22,700-year-old human footprints, White Sands National Park, New Mexico (Dan Odess, Courtesy National Park Service)
Lifesize camel carving, northern Saudi Arabia (© Hubert RAGUET / Franco-Saudi Archaeological Mission of the Camel Site / CNRS Photothèque)
1901 image of Bronze Age Map, Leuhan, France (© P. du Chatellier, Archives départementales du Finistère, Quimper, séries 100J1301 et 100J1302)
Cippus, or boundary stone, Rome, Italy (Courtesy Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali)

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