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Own every card of: Archaeology and fossils.
Digging turns a site into an archive. Layer after layer we read what vanished civilisations built and buried. The discipline took shape in the 19th century. Today it relies on radiocarbon dating and on aerial photography. Each dig pushes human memory back a little further.
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by Pierre Montet
Four crouching lions carry the vat of a sarcophagus meant for a king of Byblos around 1000 BC. In 1923 the French archaeologist Pierre Montet dug it up in the royal necropolis.
Photo: Matson Photo Service, photographer, published in 1936 (Public domain)
by Giulio Giglioli
Twelve metres up on the ridge of a temple dedicated to Menrva, a terracotta statue about 1.80 m tall towered over the sanctuary. It belonged to a group of life-size sculptures modelled between 510 and 490 BC.
Photo: Sailko (CC BY-SA 4.0)
by Yohanan Aharoni
Pieces of pottery covered with writing: the excavations of a fortress in the northern Negev led by Yohanan Aharoni from 1962 yielded 131 in Hebrew and 85 in Aramaic.
Photo: פעמי-עליון (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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