A wooden carving of a merman and other artifacts from a 17th-century shipwreck off Dorset, known as the Swash Channel wreck, are being put on display

Iraq’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of 30 rare
Christian artifacts during construction in Tekrit.

A cautionary tale from New Zealand about what to do, or better, not to do when you come across, for example, a historic shipwreck.

More about the hunt for Cleopatra, about which we are very skeptical in terms of evidence presented so far and what we know from historical records.

Indus script breakthrough or not? “The underlying grammatical structure seems similar to what’s found in many languages,” said University of Washington computer scientist Rajesh Rao. “It’s a useful paper,” said University of Helsinki archaeologist Asko Parpola, an authority on Indus scripts, “but it doesn’t really further our understanding of the script.”Interesting article.

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