Whether lost at the bottom of the ocean, tucked away in a library’s archives or hidden behind a kitchen wall, this year’s arts, archaeology and literary discoveries spanned an astonishing range. Some ...
Top two: the two sides of Tutankhamun’s dagger. Bottom: the dagger as it was photographed in 1925. Image: T. Matsui et al./Meteorit. Planet. Sci. X-ray scans of an ornate dagger from Tutankhamun’s ...
Compiling a list of the top archaeological finds in a given year is always a weird exercise in time dilation. I’m tasked with revisiting past lives through the art, shipwrecks, and bones left behind.