After a survey of Rathnadrinna Fort in Ireland’s County Tipperary, archaeologists think that the large Bronze Age ring may have been used for athletic events.

Some 65,000 colonial-era artifacts and a section of the original Battery Wall were recovered during the construction of a subway station in New York City.  

Nearly half of the 250 World War I soldiers exhumed from a battlefield in Fromelles, France, have been reburied to date. Their remains were examined and catalogued by a team of scientists.  

Pictographs near Idaho’s Lewiston’s Hells Gate State Park have been covered with graffiti. Some of the damaged images are thought to be 2,500 years old.  

An Aztec temple dating to the fifteenth century has been discovered within a colonial-era building in Mexico City.

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