Increased truck traffic created by an energy company drilling for natural gas is kicking up a lot of dust in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon, home to thousands of prehistoric petroglyphs. “I don’t think we really know what the damage might be being caused right now. I think the resource is valuable enough that we ought to find out,” said state archaeologist Kevin Jones.

Here’s a photograph of the inscription that helped Egyptian archaeologists identify the New Kingdom fortress of Tharu in northern Sinai.   If you missed yesterday’s article on the discovery of Tharu, here’s another one.  

A secret tunnel constructed in the early nineteenth century was found beneath the Casemates Barracks in Bermuda. Archaeologist Edward Harris thinks the tunnel may have been part of the island’s early fortifications.

Scholars point out factual errors in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in this article from the AFP.  

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