In 2023 archaeologists and researchers continued to push the limits of the discipline and provide new insights into the ancient world. Here we include some of the highlights of those efforts: ten compelling discoveries and breakthroughs either made, announced, and/or published in 2023 (in no particular order).It's a good list. PaleoJudaica has posted on the tenth-century BCE Jerusalem inscription that may be in Old South Arabian here and here; on the possibly oldest known codex (book) here and here; on the Roman-era swords found in the Judean Desert here and here; on the Berenike Buddha here and here; and on the unprovenanced Old Babylonian-era Amorite glossary here.[...]
To make it twelve, I would add the discovery of new Book of the Dead manuscripts and of embalming workshops, both in Saqqara, Egypt. See here and links.
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