A Wari citadel was uncovered at the Cerro Patapo Archaeological Complex in Lambayeque, Peru.

Polish archaeologists have opened a cathedral crypt in the city of Kwidzyn and identified the skeletal remains of three grand masters of the Teutonic Knights.  

Three bars of lead that were probably produced as a by-product of silver mining on the Iberian Peninsula have been found on the sea floor off the coast of Ibiza. The lead dates to the third century B.C., and may have been intended for use as munitions during the Second Punic War.  

There are about 30 stone circles in northern Japan that were constructed during the Late Jomon period (2400 to 1000 B.C.).  This article from The Japan Times gives a quick explanation of what archaeologists know about the circles and the history of archaeology in Japan.  

Ancient salt mining sites dating to the Shang and Zhou dynasties have been unearthed in China by archaeologists from Peking University and Shandong Province.  

ARCHAEOLOGY’s list of the top 10 finds of 2008 is big news in Iran, even though no discoveries from that country made the cut.   But, at Iran’s Joobji archaeological site, an Elamite tomb has yielded skeletal remains of two women, bronze coffins and containers, braziers, golden buttons, and jewelry.   And, excavations continue at a Neolithic residential area in the Kelar Tepe mound in northern Iran.   

The aurochs survived in the Netherlands longer than previously thought. Bones from a recently discovered horn core date to 600 A.D., when it had been thought that the last predecessor of the cow went extinct in the Netherlands in the fourth century.  

Anthropologist Meredith F. Small of Cornell University ponders the sunken ships and busted wine jars discovered by Norwegian archaeologists, at what could be an Illyrian market place on the border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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