A 79-mile-long wall made of stones and earth has been discovered in central Vietnam. The wall was built in the early nineteenth century along an ancient road.

Technology usually used to study moon rocks is being applied to sixteenth-century tombs in England. The tombs, which belonged to the powerful Howard family, were moved and reassembled in the 1540s. “I was talking about it to scientists at the Space Research Centre who proposed that we scan them, take them apart virtually and then put them back together again to look as the Howards originally intended. It’s like doing a jig-saw puzzle on screen with all the pieces mixed up,” said art historian Phillip Lindley of Leicester University.  

Another 37 burials have been uncovered at Pella’s ancient cemetery in northern Greece. The graves range from the Late Iron Age to the Classical and Hellenistic periods, and contained a wide assortment of ceramic, glass, and metal artifacts.  

The monolithic sarcophagus of Pakal II at the Maya city of Palenque has been restored to its original position by experts from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. The tomb was closed to the public in 2004.  

A 3D record of Chichen Itza has been made available by the Institute for the Study and Integration of Graphical Heritage Techniques. You can view the Maya site today, how it might have looked in the past, and some artifacts now in museums.  

Here’s an update on the excavations at Egypt’s Wadi Gawasis, where an international team of archaeologists has found 4,000-year-old ships and clues to trade with the “land of Punt.”

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