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Enjoy these additional images from some of our January/February 2023 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from “Storming the Castle,” image 2 is from “A Young Hercules,” image 3 is from “(Un)following the Recipe,” and image 4 is from “An Undersea Battlefield."

  • Caerlaverock Castle was built on Scotland’s southwestern coast in the thirteenth century after an earlier iteration of the medieval fortress was abandoned due to severe storms. (Courtesy Stefan Sagrott)
  • These fragments of a second-century A.D. marble statue depicting the god Hercules were unearthed in Philippi, Greece. (Courtesy Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports)
  • These bronze knife coins from China date to the Warring States Period (ca. 475–221 B.C.), a period when artisans used a varying mix of copper, tin, and lead to produce bronze objects. (© The Trustees of the British Museum)
  • Sonar scan of the newly identified SS Mesaba, which was sunk by a torpedo in the Irish Sea in September 1918 (Courtesy Innes McCartney)

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