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More From 2022’s Top 10 Discoveries

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More From 2022's Top 10 Discoveries

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Enjoy these additional images of some of this year's Top 10 Discoveries. To read the full article, click here.

  • This human-shaped wooden container was discovered in a tomb in Huarmey, Peru, that dates to the Wari Empire (A.D. 650–1000). (Photo by Miłosz Giersz)
  • This anthropomorphic standing stone at the Neolithic hunting shrine of Jibal al-Khashabiyeh is part of one of the earliest ritual structures in the world. (South Eastern Badia Archaeological Project)
  • The taffrail and ship’s wheel are visible in this photograph of the wreck of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, which sank in November 1915 in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. (© Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust)
  • Aerial view of a newly discovered Buddhist stupa in Barikot, Pakistan (Copyright ISMEO)
  • This mask is one of some 2,550 wooden artifacts unearthed at the foot of Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztecs, or Mexica. (Mirsa Islas Orozco/Courtesy of Templo Mayor Project – INAH)
  • CT scan of the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I showing a golden girdle wrapped around his waist (Courtesy Sahar Saleem)
  • Architectural features of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash in present-day southern Iraq are visible in this aerial photograph. (Courtesy Emily Hammer)

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