The “Treasure of Benghazi” was stolen from a Libyan bank vault last May. The collection includes more than 7,000 coins, jewelry, medallions, bracelets, anklets, necklaces, earrings, rings, and armbands made of precious metals and estimated to be more than 2,000 years old. Several hundred of the coins have since turned up in Egypt, according to unconfirmed reports.

A tiny box made of animal bone and decorated with Christian images has been unearthed in outside of the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. The box dates to the sixth century A.D.

A Roman tombstone and a carved relief were recovered from the Drava River in Croatia.

Researchers in Pennsylvania think they have found a mass grave of Irish immigrant railroad workers at Duffy’s Cut, near Philadelphia. The workers died in 1832 under mysterious circumstances, but the grave site will not be excavated because of its great depth and proximity to the railroad tracks.

The architects of Mexico’s Teotihuacán used a unit of 83 centimeters, according to archaeologist Saburo Sugiyama of Arizona State University and Aichi Prefectural University in Japan.

How can Turkey preserve its archaeological heritage while promoting tourism? “Despite all the efforts made during the last three decades, excluding a few examples, historic and natural conservation efforts still have not reached desired levels,” said Nuran Zeren Gülersoy of Istanbul Technical University.

An international team of researchers has examined how music and church architecture were combined to create the first “stereo effect” during the Renaissance in Venice, Italy. The presence of large congregations and tapestries on the walls would have dramatically improved the clarity of the sound.

Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Police recovered a wood sarcophagus, two wooden statues, and seven pieces of inscribed limestone that had been stolen from Saqqara.

At a recent symposium at the Royal Ontario Museum, archaeologists discussed the excavation of Godin Tepe, which is located in western Iran. Some think the unusual openings in the mud-brick oval’s walls may have been “takeout windows” for food and ammunition 5,200 years ago. “As far as I know, that is the only example of those odd, framing windows. We don’t usually find windows at all,” said Hilary Gopnik of Emory University.

Here’s some background information on the discovery of the 9,300-year-old human remains known as Kennewick Man in 1996, and the recent discovery of a human jawbone near the same site.

Artifacts recovered from the Queen Anne’s Revenge are being conserved at a lab at East Carolina University, and eventually they will go on display at the North Carolina Maritime Museum. The process is expected to take ten to 15 years.

Three historical groups in St. Augustine, Florida, will begin the construction of two replica sixteenth-century Spanish ships. “We do living history … and so adding this piece of it really helps tell the story of St. Augustine in a much more vivid way,” said John Stavely of the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park.