Has someone used a pressure washer to hose down the Great Hunt Panel in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon? Be sure to watch the video at the head of this article – it will give you a better sense of the canyon’s rock art and the impact industrial equipment has on it.

The latest technology will be used to map the Bronze Age town of Pavlopetri, which now lies underwater off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece. The town’s 3,500-year-old buildings, courtyards, streets, tombs, and artifacts have been damaged by anchors, souvenir-hunting snorkelers, and marine organisms.  

Stone Age people living in what is now South Africa must have experimented with different ingredients to improve the quality of their glue, conclude researchers from the University of Witwatersrand. “Their technology was a lot more competent than we have given them credit for,” said team member Lyn Wadley.   

A bag of 100 silver coins dating to the twelfth century was unearthed in a fourteenth-century grave in southern Sweden.  

Construction workers in Izmir, Turkey, struck a rock and discovered the grave of a king. They promptly called the police.  

In Ephesus, the marble wall-veneers of a room in the palatial house of city consul Gaius Flavius Furius Aptus are slowly being put back together. “What we are going to do here now is an effort to complete a puzzle composed of 120,000 pieces,” said excavator Sabine Ladstatter.  

Construction work at a London train station stopped after workers uncovered human bones. Government officials are concerned that the bones may represent some of the more than 600 people who died from anthrax in 1520, and who were then buried in the area. “We take every precaution,” said Nick Bateman of the Museum of London Archaeology.  

Some 200 sets of human remains have been excavated from the site of Waco’s Texas Ranger Museum and Fort Fisher Park. The National Park Service is asking the city to dedicate the area as a State Archaeological Landmark.  

Aboriginal bones found in the English home of a retired university professor and former Aboriginal Rights Association president will be handed over to two Ngarrindjeri elders today and returned to Australia.   

Here’s more information on the new analysis of Hobbit feet.  

Egypt’s archaeology chief Zahi Hawass has reportedly responded to the claim made by Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin that the famed bust of Nefertiti is a fake.    Here’s some more background information on the Nefertiti controversy from art critic Martin Gayford.

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