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Archaeology Magazine has announced its much anticipated top ten discoveries for 2021, including 23,000-year-old footprints and the world's oldest artwork.

A small slave badge engraved with the year 1853 that was discovered in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this year is one of Archaeology Magazine s top 10 discoveries in 2021.

03/03/2021 Viewed from 9,000 feet elevation on the front lawn of The Lodge Resort in Cloudcroft, distant White Sands shimmers as an immense snow-white expanse on the Tularosa Basin’s tawny desert landscape that stretches to the western horizon. Mystery and Majesty Visitors can hike over the dunes and explore the plants and animals that have adapted to this unique environment. Photo by Rob McCorkle. This 275-square-mile anomaly of undulating gypsum sand dunes, established as a national monumen...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Live updates: Sacramento cleans up after California storm’s winds pull down trees, cut power [The Sacramento Bee] Jan. 27—An extreme atmospheric river storm that reached Northern California on Tuesday evening brought extreme wind gusts overnight and is continuing to wreak havoc Wednesday morning in the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada. Here’s the latest on the storm and its effects on Sacramento and Northern California: Sacramento begins cleaning up Fierce,...