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Enjoy these additional images from some of our September/October 2022 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from “Romans Go Dutch,” image 2 is from “Surveying Samnium,” image 3 is from “Australia’s Blue Period,” image 4 is from “Herod’s Fancy Fixtures,” and image 5 is from “Alpine Crystal Hunters.”

  • This inscribed altar was unearthed at the site of a Roman sanctuary in the town of Herwen-Hemeling in the Netherlands. The sanctuary was used from the first to fourth centuries A.D. by soldiers along the Roman Limes, the outermost edges of the empire. (Courtesy RAAP Archaeological Consultancy, W. Kuijpers)
  • At the ancient Samnite hillfort of Morgia Quadra in Italy, only a few meters of fortification walls are visible from the ground. When such sites are poorly preserved, lidar and aerial images are crucial to the identification of hillforts. (Ancient Hillforts Survey)
  • This depiction of a freshwater Saratoga fish from the rock art site of Nanguluwurr in Australia’s Kakadu National Park was created by Aboriginal artists using laundry blue, a dye introduced by Europeans. (Judy Optiz Collection)
  • A calcite alabaster quarry has been discovered in Te’omim Cave, on the western slopes of the Jerusalem hills, near the present-day city of Beth Shemesh. Researchers recently determined that alabaster from the quarry was used to craft bathtubs used by the king of Judea, Herod the Great (r. 37–4 B.C.). (Courtesy Prof. Boaz Zissu and Martin (Szusz), Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University)
  • An archaeologist excavates at a site in the Swiss Alps where Mesolithic tools were found nearby a quartz vein (visible in the background), which was discovered by amateur geologist Heinz Infanger. (Valentin Luthiger/Institut Kulturen der Alpen)

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