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Digs & Discoveries March/April 2024

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Enjoy these additional images from some of our March/April 2024 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from "Spells Against Snakes." Image 2 is from "Cuts Like a Shark." Image 3 is from "Watchdog for the Afterlife." Image 4 is from "The Parthenon's Paint Job." Image 5 is from "Six Centuries of the Condor."

This engraving depicting the sun god on his journey across the sky was found in the 2,500-year-old tomb of a royal scribe named Djehutyemhat in the necropolis at Abusir in Egypt. (Petr Košárek/© Archive of Czech Institute of Egyptology)
Scratches and a ground section near the tip of a tiger shark tooth discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are evidence of its use by people who lived there some 7,000 years ago. (Courtesy M.C. Langley)
The remains of the deceased were discovered in a tomb in the city of Giugliano in southern Italy dating to between 194 B.C. and A.D. 27. (Giovanni Genova/ Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’Area Metropolitana di Napoli/ SABAP Archive)
This sculpture from the Parthenon temple in Athens depicts Helios, the Greek god of the sun. New research using a technique called visible-induced luminescence imaging has found evidence that a pigment called Egyptian blue was used to represent water from which the god is rising in his chariot. Particles of Egyptian blue are highlighted in image C. (Giovanni Verri, ©Trustees of the British Museum)
This kero, or ritual ceramic cup used to drink corn beer, which was unearthed on the outskirts of the city of Tiwanaku, bears the molded head of a condor. (David Trigo Rodríguez/The Regional Museum of Tiwanaku Archeology)

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