An intact 4,500-year-old tomb belonging to a priest named Neferinpu was unearthed in Abusir, Egypt, by Czech archaeologists.

Some Pleistocene cave bears may have given humans a little more competition for food than previously thought, according to a new study of bear bones from the Carpathian Mountains.

The firm Headland Archaeology has been keeping busy in its home city of Edinburgh, Scotland. The latest excavation is at the Grassmarket, where grain and livestock were bought and sold several days a week between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.

The New York Times has picked up on the study of soil samples at the Maya site of Chunchucmil. Samples taken from a possible market area there contained high levels of phosphorus, indicating an abundance of organic materials had decayed there. Soils from modern Maya markets have similar test results.

The new theory on Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto‘s route through northern Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Arkansas, where he died in 1542, has reappeared again, as well. Archaeologists have different theories about his route, and what sorts of objects indicate a Spanish presence at a particular site.

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