Read the sentence. Eagerly awaited are the archaeologists' new discoveries. What is the simple subject? discoveries archaeologists awaited Eagerly

The answer to your question would be that the simple subject of the sentence is "discoveries".

Explanation:

Simple subject is the term used for the single word that is the subject of the verb. The fact is that a subject may have modifiers before or after it, but when removed, the word left is the simple subject. In this case, the noun head of this postverbal subject is "discoveries".

archaeologists is the simple subject of this sentence. it is what is being described and used as a noun