Aswan’s Great Necropolis

Top 10 Discoveries of 2024 January/February 2025

Aswan, Egypt
Courtesy the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
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Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most significant discoveries result from ongoing work that allows archaeologists to fully comprehend a site’s scope and importance over time. Novel realizations can change what researchers thought they knew.

In 2019, Egyptologist Patrizia Piacentini of the University of Milan began to work at a site

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