Subway excavation in the Greek city of Salonika uncovered more than 1,400 graves spanning 800 years, from the fourth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D.

Neolithic people traveled hundreds of miles with their cattle and pigs to attend feasts at Stonehenge. “We are looking at communication networks and rituals that are bringing people from a large area of southern England to the Stonehenge area before the Stonehenge stones were in place. I think what we are seeing is basically a sort of bring-your-own-beef barbecue at Durrington Walls,” said Jane Evans of the British Geological Survey.  

Ireland’s Department of Environment is looking for a team to study the medieval “Drogheda Boat,” discovered at the bottom of the River Boyne.  

In Turkey, a fountain has been found at an entrance to the theater at Kaunos.  

Patricia Sutherland, an archaeologist with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, thinks that ancient artifacts found near Kimmirut suggest contact between Inuit and Vikings, or other European mariners, between 1000 and 1450 A.D. “Were the Norse spending more time in Arctic Canada than we previously thought?” she asked.  

Here’s an old photograph of the S.S. City of Medicine Hat, which sank in 1908 after hitting a bridge in Saskatoon. An archaeologist and volunteers brought up some artifacts from the South Saskatchewan River that may have come from the wreckage.  

John and Elizabeth Macarthur are known in Australia as the wealthy pioneers of the merino wool industry. They built a luxurious mansion in the 1830s, but archaeologist Ted Higginbotham may have found their first home, what a visitor called a “small, miserable hut” in 1810.  

Al-Ahram tells the story of the return to Egypt of an eye from a statue of Amenhotep III that was stolen in 1972. A photograph of the fragment is included.  

Watch the video from the Associated Press on the excavation of a Lambayeque tomb in Peru that contained the remains of what may been a sacrificed pregnant woman.

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