Top 10 Discoveries of 2020

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds

By THE EDITORS

January/February 2021

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Mummy Cache
Saqqara, Egypt
Carbon Dating Pottery
Worldwide
Largest Viking DNA Study
Northern Europe and Greenland
The First Enslaved Africans in Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
Luwian Royal Inscription
Türkmen-Karahöyük, Turkey
A Shrine to Romulus
Rome, Italy
Oldest Chinese Artwork
Henan, China
Enduring Rites of the Mound Builders
Georgia, United States
Oldest Maya Temple
Tabasco, Mexico
First English Playhouse
London, England
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