While searching for the tomb of Cleopatra near Alexandria, a team of archaeologists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic discovered an alabaster sculpture of the queen’s head, a mask thought to belong to Mark Antony, a bronze statue of Aphrodite, and bronze coins stamped with an image of Cleopatra’s face.

A Maori village raided and abandoned on December 16, 1823, is being investigated by James Robinson of Otago University. “Essentially, it’s what Captain Cook saw when he arrived in New Zealand. The island is covered with archaeological features,” he said.  

A pair of pistols given to James Madison during his presidency traveled to England for atomic testing at the ISIS neutron source. It had been thought that the guns were made of meteoritic iron from the Campo del Cielo crater in Argentina. “They were completely different,” concluded Evelyne Godfrey, who carried out the study.  

Excavations at the village of Khukragarh, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, have revealed a fourteenth-century temple that may be linked to an existing Shiva temple, and coins and burials.

A Georgian-era building in York, England, with a Roman burial chamber in its basement, has gone on the market.

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