Five sets of human remains were uncovered by workers repairing a septic tank at the Guam National Wildlife Refuge headquarters. The bones are thought to have been buried prior to Magellan’s landing on the island in 1521.

What happens when a small college in Ohio goes out of business? Its small collection of Babylonian antiquities gets listed as an asset.  

Two gold coins bearing the image of Valens, who ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 364 to 378 A.D., were found in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.  

Long-distance fishing and the trade in dried cod began at the end of the first millennium A.D., according to an analysis of cod bones from archaeological sites across Northern Europe. “The emergence of commercial fishing represents a watershed in the intensity of human use of the sea. It is central to an understanding of economic history,” the international research team reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science.  

Reinvestigation of the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings has revealed a quartzite Ushabti figure and cartouche belonging to the pharaoh.  

A Turkish diver discovered a 3,000-year-old stone anchor off the port of Kyrenia in northern Cyprus.  

This article features photographs of two Roman sculptures recovered by Italian police last week. One of the carvings is a rare portrait of Lucius Verus, the other depicts Faustina, wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius.

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