Two limestone reliefs stolen from Saqqara in 1986 by an antiquities smuggling gang have been recovered by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Police.

Archaeologists have unearthed a Lycian tomb complex at the site of Rhodiapolis in southwestern Turkey. “The structures were made of brick and topped with arched roofs,” said Isa Kizgut of Akdeniz University.

Advanced cutting blades that were systematically mass produced between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago have been unearthed at Israel’s Qesem Cave, located outside Tel Aviv. It had been thought that such blades were only produced by Homo sapiensabout 30,000 to 40,000 years ago.

Cannons dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are being restored by Jüri Peets of Tallinn University. The cannons were discovered in the moat at Estonia’s Kuressaare Castle.

A skeleton that turned up in South Bend, Indiana, may have been used as a medical specimen during the 1800s.

A body dating to the seventeenth century has been uncovered during road construction in Dublin.

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