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Enjoy these additional images from some of our May/June 2024 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from "Pompeian Politics." Image 2 is from "The Amazon's Urban Roots." Image 3 is from "Cleaning Out the Basement." Image 4 is from "Workhouse Woes." Image 5 is from "Turn of the Millennium Falcon." Image 6 is from "Speaking in Golden Tongues."

  • Ongoing excavations in the house of Pompeian political candidate Aulus Rustius Verus (Courtesy Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei)
  • Conservators apply an adhesive layer of silicone rubber to a complete Roman-era cellar in Heddernheim, Germany, before removing it to the local archaeology museum. (W. Muskalla/Archaeological Museum of Frankfurt)
  • An X-ray of rib bones of a gyrfalcon whose partial skeleton was discovered in a well at the citadel of Karabalgasun in central Mongolia shows signs of healed fractures, indicating that the gyrfalcon was a captive bird that people cared for. (R. Hutterer/ZMFK)
  • A complex of rectangular earthen platforms at the site of Nijiamanch, which sits on a cliff along Ecuador’s Upano River, was part of a network of early urban communities in the Amazon that Indigenous people built beginning around 2,500 years ago. (S. Rostain)
  • In the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, two empty stone sarcophagi were found in an underground tomb dating to between 332 and 30 B.C. (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities)
  • While excavating the remnants of London’s St. Pancras workhouse, archaeologists uncovered flooring made with sandstone from Yorkshire in rooms that they believe served as overseers’ living quarters and offices. (© MOLA)

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