More From Digs & Discoveries

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)

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