Archaeologist Perry Blomquist says he has rediscovered the first outpost that belonged to explorer, map maker, and fur trader David Thompson at Sipiwesk Lake in northern Manitoba.

Here’s a photograph of the gramophone recovered from the Klondike Gold Rush-era steamboat found at the bottom of Canada’s Lake Laberge. 

Man-made caves sit beneath Iowa City, Iowa, where nineteenth-century brewers fermented their beer in vats. 

In Virginia, the Alexandria Archeology Commission wants to find the boundaries of an African-American cemetery located beneath Fort Ward Park. The families of freed slaves used the land until the 1960s, when the park was built. 

The Adena people of what is now Ohio had different burial practices but similar beliefs, according to Christopher Hays of the University of Wisconsin. 

You can listen to an interview with archaeologist Michael B. Collins at NPR. He talks about the stone tools and manufacturing debris dated to 15,000 years ago that were uncovered in Texas, and when and how people might have first arrived in the Americas. 

A trench dug at the seventeenth-century San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe, New Mexico, yielded disarticulated human bones, pottery from the 1300s, a nineteenth-century Spanish coin, and a twentieth-century school-tax token. 

Foreign tourists have not returned to Egypt, so the locals are taking in the sights.

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