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Digs & Discoveries November/December 2023

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Enjoy these additional images from some of our November/December 2023 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 and 2 are from "The Medusa of Mérida." Image 3 is from "A Stitch in Time." Image 4 is from "The Benin Bronzes’ Secret Ingredient." And image 5 is from "Island Commander."

Inside a large Roman house in Mérida, Spain, archaeologists uncovered a second- or third-century A.D. mosaic with the head of Medusa at its center. (Mérida City Council/Consortium of the Monumental City of Mérida)
The room in the large Roman house in Mérida, Spain, where the mosaic was found also had vibrantly painted walls and a marble staircase that connected it to another space. (Mérida City Council/Consortium of the Monumental City of Mérida)
Off the coast of present-day Croatia in the Adriatic’s Bay of Zambratija, underwater archaeologists excavate remnants of the oldest hand-sewn boat to have been discovered in the Mediterranean, dating to between the twelfth and tenth centuries B.C. (Photo: Philippe Soubias, CNRS/CCJ, @Adriboats)
Manillas, horseshoe-shaped brass rings used as currency by Europeans to trade with West Africans, were among the items found in the wreck of a Flemish ship that sank in 1524 off the town of Getaria in northern Spain. (Ana Maria Benito-Dominguez, CC-BY 4.0)
A particularly rich burial dated to late in the Iron Age (ca. 750 B.C.–A.D. 43) and discovered on the tiny island of Bryher in 1999 was recently found to contain the remains of a woman, not a man as previously thought. (©Isles of Scilly Museum Association)

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