A man digging out a pond on his property in Bangladesh uncovered a tenth-century statue of Lord Vishnu, called by archaeologist AKM Zakaria, “one of the finest and one of the largest artifacts discovered in the country.” Local people took steps to protect the statue from smugglers, but the country’s museum officials are arguing over where the statue should be kept.

In Macedonia, archaeologist Marina Oncevska unearthed a statue of Venus dating to the second or third century. “The smoothness of the marble and the beauty of the statue give us the clue that this masterpiece came from one of the best artistic schools in the Mediterranean,” she said.   Additional photographs are shown in this article from Macedonia.  

An excavation on Cyprus revealed a lead curse tablet dating to the seventh century A.D.   

Mesolithic hunter-gatherers may have been more territorial than previously thought, according to new research and a map of the 10,000-year-old landscape known as Doggerland, now submerged beneath the North Sea. The map was made using seismic survey data collected by an oil company.  

Shelby White will return two artifacts from her collection of antiquities, after reaching an agreement with the Greek Ministry of Culture.   

A man reportedly died in China when the tomb he was looting collapsed.  

A physics professor from the University of Maine helped federal agents identify the emerald artifacts recently returned to Colombia. C.T. Hess used an X-ray fluorescence machine to confirm that all 15 emeralds had come from the same site.  

A battleship designed by Peter the Great was found in the Baltic Sea, near Kotlin Island, during a Russian film project titled “Secrets of the Sunken Ships.” Some 30 warships have been found by the team so far.  

Scientists will survey three German U-boats sunk off the coast of North Carolina during the Battle of the Atlantic in 1942. Although the wrecks are considered war graves, they are open to divers, and have been “severely impacted by salvage operators and souvenir hunters.”

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