Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have finished the controversial seven-year excavation of a Second Temple period drainage channel. The channel is located in Jerusalem’s Old City, near the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, has replied to Egypt’s request for the return of the famed bust of Nefertiti. “The foundation’s position on the return of Nefertiti remains unchanged. She is and remains the ambassador of Egypt in Berlin.”  

The 1,700-year-old skeleton of a man of African descent discovered in England two years ago may be the remains of a Roman soldier who retired in Stratford-upon-Avon.  

Researchers from Stanford University built and fired a kiln based on late Iron Age and Roman kilns found in Britain, in addition to kilns from other ancient cultures. “What we’ve learned from the suite of replication events on campus is that the firing technologies evolved to fit the materials,” said ceramic geoarchaeologist Melissa Chatfield.  

A nine-year-old boy discovered a Neolithic ax head while out walking his dog with his grandfather.  

Thomas P. Lowry of Woodbridge, Virginia, has confessed to changing the date on a Lincoln document held at The National Archives back in 1998. The statute of limitations has run out on this federal crime, so he will not be prosecuted.

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