Fifty new graves have been discovered at the sixth-century B.C. cemetery known as Arhontiko, in Greece. Two bronze helmets with gold inlay, iron weapons, gold ornaments, statuettes, and pottery were found within the graves.

Mokumanamana (Necker) Island is a remote island in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Scientists recently spent 18 days scouring the difficult, rocky terrain, mapping its 34 heiau, or religious structures. “There are few cases in Hawaii where you can see an intact cultural landscape with nearly 100 percent native plants and animals,” said Kekuewa Kikiloi of the University of Hawaii.   More photographs of the island and its artifacts can be seen in the Honolulu Advertiser.  

Members of Tasmania’s Aboriginal community want work on a bypass to stop, saying that artifacts have been found on the site. “It would be cultural vandalism on an extreme scale,” said Michael Mansell, an Aboriginal lawyer and activist.  

Historian Tom Brooks claims that Britain’s Stone Age hilltop monuments were part of an ancient navigational aid made up of a grid of isosceles triangles.  

Here’s another article on the first sentencing after the federal government crackdown on the illegal trafficking of American Indian artifacts in the Southwest. Two women from Blanding, Utah, received probation and fines after pleading guilty to felonies and surrendering more than 800 objects.   

The FBI says that their secret search for underground evidence in a Detroit lumberyard has been “successful.” An archaeologist and forensic anthropologists from Michigan State assisted in the dig.

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