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Digs & Discoveries September/October 2023

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Enjoy these additional images from some of our September/October 2023 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from “A Sword for the Ages.” Image 2 is from “A Very Close Encounter.” Image 3 is from “Ram Heads for Ramesses.” Image 4 is from “Pizza! Pizza?” Image 5 is from “Royal Wharf.”

The octagonal hilt of an extremely well-preserved bronze sword dating to between 1600 and 1200 B.C. that was recently excavated in the town of Nördlingen in the German state of Bavaria (Archäologie-Büro Dr. Woidich/Sergiu Tifui)
In a ravine in central Montana just north of the Little Belt Mountains lies the Painted Coulee site, where rock art depicting a warrior armed with a shield and spear thrower giving chase to an archer was recently dated to the Late Archaic period (ca. A.D. 240–425), when the bow was first being introduced to the Great Plains. (Courtesy Sacred Sites Research)
This small bronze bell, which would have hung from a ram’s neck, was deposited along with more than 2,000 mummified animal skulls in a storage area near the temple of the pharaoh Ramesses II (reigned ca. 1279–1213 B.C.) in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos. (Courtesy Sameh Iskander)
Excavations in a section of Pompeii where a wall painting that resembles an early type of pizza was discovered (Courtesy Archaeological Park of Pompeii)
A finely crafted bone stylus used for making notes on wax tablets was found amid the remains of a medieval wharf in the Bjørvika neighborhood of Oslo, Norway. It may have been lost by an accountant recording a ship’s cargo. (© NIKU)

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