Over 2023, artnet news has covered the discovery of relics, shipwrecks, coin caches, cave art, burial sites, personal artifacts, and at least one infamous roman theater, all of which have refreshed our understanding of how ancient peoples lived. On a hot field of newly planted tobacco in bourbon county, a lexington couple walks between the rows, heads bent down studying the ground. Bradford ledford and his girlfriend logan brooke grant have the landowner’s permission to. Each era of human history is buried in a layer of dirt, waiting to be unearthed and discovered. Now, in france, archaeologists have discovered a site that has experienced a human footprint for at. But despite the thousands of hours put into discovery at the site, only three relics have been successfully extracted. Known as the dixon relics, the trio of artifacts was discovered in 1872 by. Structure three years ago during excavations at an archaeological site in the ancient city of buto, now called tell. From a forgotten work by pablo picasso to the site of harriet tubman’s maryland home to an aztec altar, these were the most fascinating finds of 2021, as covered by smithsonian magazine.