In Myanmar, the 2,300-year-old Danok Pagoda collapsed on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 150. Most of the dead are thought to have been construction workers who were working on a restoration of the ancient Buddhist temple.

The modern-style Ara Pacis Museum in Rome was splashed with red and green paint overnight, and a toilet and toilet paper were left next to it. The current building replaced one built my Mussolini in 1938 to house the sacrificial altar built in 9 B.C. by Emperor Augustus. “Hooliganism and vandalism won’t decide the debate over interventions on architecture and monuments in the city,” said Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno.  

Some Japanese scholars think that Queen Himiko may have been buried in the key-hole shaped Hashihaka burial mound in Nara, based on radiocarbon dates of the tomb, artifacts found within it, and the date of the queen’s death.  

The Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale in Georgia was excavated in the 1980s. This article reviews what was uncovered, including tens of thousands of glass beads manufactured all over the world. “They were probably giving them to the Guale Indians who they were trying to convert to Catholicism,” said Lorann S.A. Pendleton, of the American Museum of Natural History.  

A section of “Wade’s Road” in Scotland, designed by General George Wade in the eighteenth century for the military, was not constructed according to plan, says archaeologist John Lewis.

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