A cache of coins that was burned during the destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 A.D. has gone on display for the first time in Jerusalem. “These really show us the impact of the destruction of Jerusalem in the first century,” said Gabriela Bijovsky of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Veteran Don Chalmers has returned a surviving wood candlestick he removed from a ransacked church on the Solomon Islands during World War II. “We were rummaging around. The chapel was trashed. The candlesticks were so out of place in this rubble. It was amazing they weren’t damaged,” he recalled.  

A partial silver-plated serving set pulled from the wreckage of the USS Arizona in the 1940s will not be auctioned off after all. “U.S. Navy craft and their associated contents remain the property of the U.S. Navy unless expressly abandoned or title is transferred by appropriate U.S. government authority,” said Navy spokesman Bill Doughty. Many of the 1,177 men who died on the ship in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, are entombed there.  

Learn how to read the Maya Long Count calendar at USA Today.  

Last month, a stone bearing the carved name of a Civil War soldier was uncovered near West Virginia’s Fort Boreman Historical Park.   

Authorities in Cyprus think that thieves tried to remove a 2,000-year-old standing stone used in making olive oil from an archaeological site. “Someone illegally entered the site and removed the stone. It appears that because of its massive weight, the thieves were unable to take it far and left it in a nearby field,” said Pissouri Village Council Secretary Petros Foutas.

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