College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Museum Directory. Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries of 2011. Years from now, when we look back on 2011, the year will almost certainly be defined by political and economic upheaval.
At the same time that Western nations were shaken by a global economic slump, people in the Middle East and North Africa forcefully removed heads of state who had been in power for decades. “Arab Spring,” as the various revolutions have collectively been named, will have far-reaching implications, not just for the societies in which it took place, but also for archaeology. No year-end review would be complete without polling archaeological communities in the affected areas to determine whether sites linked to the world’s oldest civilizations, from Apamea in Syria to Saqqara in Egypt, are still intact.
Our update appears here. Of course, traditional fieldwork took place in 2011 as well. Underwater Archaeology. The Perfect Corpse.