In Yemen, archaeologists have reportedly uncovered a statue of a queen sitting on a throne.

Construction workers digging near the Washington Museum of Natural History in Missouri unearthed some 800-year-old American Indian artifacts.  

Plans to reconstruct the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus in the nearby Turkish town of Selçuk are still on the books. The new building would be used as a center for the arts.  

At Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, an arsenal originally built in 1806 will be partially reconstructed in order to protect its remaining features. The building held thousands of weapons that John Brown failed to obtain during his raid in 1859, and was eventually burned down by Confederate troops.  

Two Civil War battlefields in western Maryland are endangered by plans to build a trash incinerator and a natural gas plant.  

England’s National Trust will mark the seventieth anniversary of the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo with a 1930s-style garden party. This article gives a brief description of the excavation.  

Chimps living in the Republic of Congo use wooden implements and spend a lot of time to extract honey from beehives. “The nutritional returns don’t seem to be that great. But their excitement when they’ve succeeded is incredible, you can see how much they are enjoying tasting the honey,” said Crickette Sanz, of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology.

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