Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries of 2020

Archaeology Magazine ^ | January/February 2021 | The Editors

[Oshkalaboomboom]

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds:

Top 10 Discoveries of 2020

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds:

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, USA
Oldest Maya Temple - Tabasco, Mexico
First English Playhouse - London, England

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Each item has its own story of discovery.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Thought this might be interesting.

[El Cid]

Did Obummer’s birth certificate break the top ten?

[Darteaus94025]

No such thing. Like looking for unicorns.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Did Obummer’s birth certificate break the top ten?

There were almost 4 years when that argument could have been settled once and for all. That disappeared down the same rathole as "Lock her up"

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Huh. I listened to Malcolm Hoenlein on two distinct occasions (months apart) discussing w/John Batchelor discoveries in Israel, at least one of which would seem to rank at least in the middle of any such list.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I didn't make the list. They do have a Reader's Letters section where you can point that out to them.

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[Oshkalaboomboom]

That email address should not contain spaces:

letters@archaeology.org

[Greg123456]

Voter fraud should be at the top of the list... And they didn’t even have to dig for it.

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[nickcarraway]

What about the discovery of Biden’s high School?

[Swordmaker]

11: Living Mummified Human Female (?) Lacking Heart, Brain — Speaker’s Platform, House of Representatives Chamber, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oshkalaboomboom.