Dogfish Head brewing company has formulated a beer based on residues from drinking vessels that were discovered in a royal burial chamber in central Turkey. The limited-release drink is called “Midas Touch Golden Elixer.”

In this editorial, Simon Jenkins of The Guardian offers some thoughts on the latest work at Stonehenge.  

Two artifacts returned to Greece from the private collection of Shelby White have gone on display this week at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.  

The Barakat Gallery in London has appealed an appeals court decision which ruled that it must return 18 artifacts smuggled from the site of Jiroft in southern Iran.  

Local heritage chief Tawfiq Mohammed announced that Iraqi archaeologists will look for Sumerian-period architecture near the banks of the Euphrates River.  

Eighteenth-century artifacts have been unearthed at North Carolina’s David Caldwell Historic Park. Caldwell is remembered for educating future governors and members of Congress in what he called the Log College. “It seems to be something that really interests people, someone who is so intertwined in the history of Greensboro, Guilford County, and our state,” said project volunteer Gary Brown.  

There’s a little more information and a few photographs at BBC News of the sixteenth-century Portuguese trading vessel discovered off the coast of Namibia. “It represents a very interesting cargo – we have goods from Asia, we have goods from Europe, we have goods from Africa,” said Webber Ndoro, who is the project manager for the rescue excavation.

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