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Digs & Discoveries May/June 2023

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Enjoy these additional images from some of our May/June 2023 issue. Image 1 is from "Notre Dame's Nobility." Image 2 is from "The Sea God's Sanctuary." Image 3 is from "Taking the Stage." Images 4 and 5 are from "Around the World."

Researchers in a lab in Toulouse, France, studying a lead sarcophagus recovered from beneath the floor of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral (© Denis Gliksman, Inrap)
Stone foundations of temple building, Kleidi-Samikon, Greece (© ÖAW-ÖAI)
Aerial view of odeon ruins, Lissos, Crete (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports/Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development)
Head of a limestone sphinx that may represent the Roman emperor Claudius (reigned A.D. 41–54), excavated near the Roman-era Temple of Horus within the Dendera Temple complex in Egypt (Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)
A 13,900-year-old rib of a mastodon discovered at the Manis Mastodon site in Washington State is embedded with tiny fragments of a projectile fashioned from the leg bone of another mastodon. (Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University)

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