Foundations dating to the thirteenth century have been uncovered at Hampton Court Palace. The building may have been a residential hall for the Knights Hospitallers, who were visited by Edward III in 1353.

Authorities in the Philippines seized 22 bags of pieces of anthropomorphic burial jars from thieves.  

Laser technology is being used to clean the black crust from the buildings of the Athens Acropolis. “If you remove something you cannot put it back in place, so we must be quite sure that we remove unwanted pollutants and leave … all the information on the original surface,” said Evi Papaconstantinou, a chemical engineer.  

Here’s a quick update of current excavations in Rome.   More information on the discovery of a cryptoportico on the Palatine Hill, where Emperor Caligula is said to have been stabbed to death, is available at Times Online.  Pictures of Marcus Nonius Macrinus’ tomb can be seen at BBC News.   

“As outrageous as it might sound, we’re looking for the tomb of Genghis Khan,” said Albert Yu-Min Lin, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego, Center for Interdisciplinary Science in Art, Architecture, and Archaeology. The team will use remote sensing techniques and satellite imagery to search a region bordered by Mongolia’s Onon River and the Khan Khentii Mountains.  

Renovation of Abydos will begin this month. The Egyptian government will remove modern construction from around the monuments, clean up the rubble, and landscape the area and build a new visitor’s center. “The line between life and death, the Nile Valley, and the desert — you can see it. If you cross the line you enter into the other life. This has to be clear on our minds,” said architect Tarek Waly.

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