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Digs & Discoveries July/August 2022

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Enjoy these additional images from some of our July/August 2022 Digs & Discoveries. Images 1 and 2 are from “Mummy Makers,” image 3 is from “Sailing in Sumer,” image 4 is from “Dignity of the Dead,” and image 5 is from “The Great Maize Migration.”

Canopic jars inscribed with the name of the deceased, Wahibre-mery-Neith, were discovered in a cache of embalming vessels at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Abusir. (Author: Petr Košárek, © archives of the Czech Institute of Egyptology)
Among the embalming vessels found at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Abusir is an inscribed cup that was used to store the viscera of the deceased. (Author: Petr Košárek, © archives of the Czech Institute of Egyptology)
Near ancient Uruk in Iraq, archaeologists carefully excavate remnants of bitumen that once covered a Sumerian boat. (German Archaeological Institute/Julia Nador)
Two fieldstone chullpas in the middle Chincha Valley of Peru (Photo: Michael Rosales)
Excavations at a rock shelter site in the Bladen Nature Reserve, Belize, where archaeologists have uncovered human remains dating as far back as 10,000 years (Keith M. Prufer)

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