Two ceramic bowls filled with medieval coins were unearthed at Carevi Kuli in Macedonia. The Carevi Kuli, or Tsar’s Towers, stand at Strumica Fortress.

A piece of limestone bearing several Hebrew letters was discovered in soil taken from the Walls around Jerusalem National Park. The stone and pottery found with it date to the eighth century B.C.  

In Bangladesh, the terra cotta statues and plaques at Paharpur Buddhist Monastery, a World Heritage site, are suffering from a lack of maintenance, heavy rainfall, and soil salinity.  

A rock used to mark the boundaries of a church parking lot in Sweden is actually a 1,000-year-old gravestone, according to Lars Andersson of the Stockholm County Museum.   

Tony Pollard, director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, has suggested that cooler temperatures during the Little Ice Age (1645 to 1715) created hardships for the people of Scotland that were more difficult than those of the Black Death.  

Here’s more information on the mummies in brightly painted wooden coffins that were found near the mud-brick Lahun pyramid, near Fayoum, Egypt. Archaeologist Abdul Rahman Al-Ayedi also hints at announcements to come. “The prevailing idea was that this site has been established by Senusret II, the fourth king of the 12^th dynasty. But in light of our discovery, I think we are going to change this theory, and soon we will announce another discovery,” he said.   This Associated Press article has more photographs.  

Excavation will continue in Newport, Rhode Island, at the eighteen-century home of Thomas Richardson II, a wealthy slave trader, rum maker, and captain in the so-called triangular trade.    

Have you heard of the Museo Oro del Peru (Gold Museum) in Lima, Peru? Authorities who examined the gold artifacts at the museum in 2001 said that 98% of them were fakes. Archaeologists and conservators have been trying to sort out the scandal.  

A replica sixteenth-century Chinese ship sank after 10 months at sea when it was rammed by a freighter off the coast of Taiwan. The crew of the Princess Taiping was rescued by helicopter.

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