A bath complex dating to the early part of the first century A.D. has been found beneath the Imperial Baths at Sagalassos. The newly discovered baths have replaced the Capito Baths at Miletus as the oldest known Roman baths in Turkey.

An intact bronze vessel holding human cremains has been recovered from a fourth-century B.C. tomb in Nessebar, Bulgaria.  

Researchers from the U.S. Navy will search for the Bonhomme Richard in the North Sea. The ship, which was a gift from the French during the American Revolution, was commanded by Captain John Paul Jones. It sank in 1779 after taking HMS Serapis.  

The skeleton of a gigantic North Atlantic right whale has been excavated from the banks of the Thames. Londoners had stripped the whale’s carcass and removed its head some 200 years ago. “The North Atlantic right whale was a very slow-moving, visible mammal so could be harpooned easily by whalers. It’s now virtually extinct in the east Atlantic so that’s another reason this is such a find,” said archaeologist Tim Bradley.  

A woman walking in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest spotted a Mimbres pot. She marked the spot and alerted the park rangers. “I’m so glad that Mrs. Grover did the right thing and told us about this incredible find,” said archaeologist Chris Adams.  

MSNBC lists seven popular “mysteries of history” that have been or are currently being investigated by archaeologists.

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