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More From 2021's Top 10 Discoveries

Enjoy these additional images of some of this year's top 10 discoveries. To read the full article, click here.

  • Ceramic vessel with hieroglyphs, Golden City, Luxor, Egypt (Courtesy Zahi Hawass)
  • Pierced Nassarius snail shells, possibly strung together with leather cord, Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco (Courtesy Esteban Álvarez-Fernández)
  • Ca. 22,700-year-old human footprints, White Sands National Park, New Mexico (Dan Odess, Courtesy National Park Service)
  • Lifesize camel carving, northern Saudi Arabia (© Hubert RAGUET / Franco-Saudi Archaeological Mission of the Camel Site / CNRS Photothèque)
  • 1901 image of Bronze Age Map, Leuhan, France (© P. du Chatellier, Archives départementales du Finistère, Quimper, séries 100J1301 et 100J1302)
  • Cippus, or boundary stone, Rome, Italy (Courtesy Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali)

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