German researchers have discovered the hippodrome of Olympia just east of the stadium, using geomagnetic mapping and georadar. It had been thought that the racetrack disappeared in floods during the Middle Ages, and was only known through the writings of Pausanias, who visited Olympia in the second century A.D.

Thai protesters who want to reclaim the ancient Khmer Preah Vihear temple from Cambodia have created more tension between the two governments.  

The bacteria Helicobacter pylori were found in the gastric tissue of two mummies from a cave in northern Mexico, suggesting that the infant male and adult male suffered from ulcers when they were alive in the fourteenth century.  

The World Archaeological Congress, meeting at University College Dublin, has urged Ireland’s government to develop protection measures for Tara/Skryne Valley, along the controversial M3 motorway through County Meath.   Maggie Ronayne of the National University of Ireland, Galway, has written an editorial on the World Archaeological Congress. She has also written about road development in Ireland, and corruption in development planning processes.  

Archaeologist James Adovasio, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and others will search Florida’s Gulf Coast for traces of early American Indians this summer. “There is no question in almost all archaeological minds that the earliest examples of North American occupation are underwater,” commented Dave Watters, curator and head of anthropology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.  

Artifacts will be recovered from the USS Torrent, which sank 140 years ago near Port Graham, Alaska, while carrying federal troops to the new territory. The Coast Guard will assist Alaska state archaeologist Dave McMahon and others with the job.   

C. Brian Rose, president of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been appointed Deputy Directory of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Congratulations!

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