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Enjoy these additional images from some of our March/April 2024 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from "Spells Against Snakes." Image 2 is from "Cuts Like a Shark." Image 3 is from "Watchdog for the Afterlife." Image 4 is from "The Parthenon's Paint Job." Image 5 is from "Six Centuries of the Condor."

  • This engraving depicting the sun god on his journey across the sky was found in the 2,500-year-old tomb of a royal scribe named Djehutyemhat in the necropolis at Abusir in Egypt. (Petr Košárek/© Archive of Czech Institute of Egyptology)
  • Scratches and a ground section near the tip of a tiger shark tooth discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are evidence of its use by people who lived there some 7,000 years ago. (Courtesy M.C. Langley)
  • The remains of the deceased were discovered in a tomb in the city of Giugliano in southern Italy dating to between 194 B.C. and A.D. 27. (Giovanni Genova/ Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’Area Metropolitana di Napoli/ SABAP Archive)
  • This sculpture from the Parthenon temple in Athens depicts Helios, the Greek god of the sun. New research using a technique called visible-induced luminescence imaging has found evidence that a pigment called Egyptian blue was used to represent water from which the god is rising in his chariot. Particles of Egyptian blue are highlighted in image C. (Giovanni Verri, ©Trustees of the British Museum)
  • This kero, or ritual ceramic cup used to drink corn beer, which was unearthed on the outskirts of the city of Tiwanaku, bears the molded head of a condor. (David Trigo Rodríguez/The Regional Museum of Tiwanaku Archeology)

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