Archaeologist Carlos Wester of the Bruning Museum in Lambayeque, and his team have unearthed the tomb of a lord of the Lambayeque culture at the temple complex of Chotuna Chornancap, Peru. Copper machetes and human offerings suggest that he had been an executioner.

A skull has been found at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Jeff Fong of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific thinks it may belong to one of the 55 Japanese pilots who died during the attack on December 7, 1941.

CNN offers more information on the MEGA-Iraq (Middle Eastern geodatabase for heritage) project, developed by the Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund.

The stage at the ancient theater at Hieropolis in Turkey will be restored.

NBC reporter Richard Engel visits Libya and the ancient city of Cyrene in this Today Show video.

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