Julia King of Maryland’s St. Mary’s College says she has located Zekiah Fort, built by Governor Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore, in 1680. The fort was intended to protect Maryland Indian groups from raiders from the north.

Bridge construction in London has uncovered the remains of a Roman bath house. “In Roman times the main settlement was on the north bank of the River Thames and was connected to the settlement at Southwark by the first London Bridge,” said Chris Place of Network Rail.

In Ireland, structures built after 1700 could be removed from the protection of the Record of Monuments and Places. “It’s the archaeology of our immediate ancestors, of the diaspora. It’s still relevant. Once the protection goes, there’s nothing to stop people coming in and bulldozing the sites, or using them for development,” said archaeologist Colm Moriarty.

Archaeologists and volunteers will spend four days excavating a fort in Stirling, Scotland, that was destroyed by fire in 780 A.D. “Scotland has more known vitrified forts than anywhere else in Europe and here in Stirling we have our own that reflects our warlike past,” said Stirling Council archaeologist Murray Cook.

Bones unearthed in a cemetery in Red Bay, Labrador, belonged to Basques who whaled offshore and lived along the coast more than 400 years ago. Basque whaling vessels have also been found.

A new analysis of a 13,000-year-old skull discovered in a cave in West Africa in 1965 concludes that the ancestors of early humans could have lived on for much longer than previously thought. “[The skull] has got a much more primitive appearance, even though it is only 13,000 years old. This suggests that human evolution in Africa was more complex… the transition to modern humans was not a straight transition and then a cut off,” explained Chris Stringer of London’s Natural History Museum.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts will return a 2,500-year-old vase to Italy. The vase most likely was looted from a Greek settlement in the Puglia region of southern Italy before it was sold to the museum in 1983.

A new technique for dating silk artifacts measures the natural deterioration of the silk’s amino acids. Carbon 14 dating requires the destruction of a lot of material, so in the past, researchers have relied upon historical knowledge and physical and chemical characteristics to date silk items.

Mosaics and paintings by the Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans are helping scientists to determine how populations of the endangered dusky grouper have changed over time. “Amazingly, ancient mosaic art has provided important information to reconstruct this fish’s historical baseline,” said Paolo Guidetti of Italy’s University of Salento.

Burned mussel shells discovered in a cave on the southern coast of Spain suggest that Neanderthals ate seafood 150,000 years ago. “It provides evidence for the exploitation of coastal resources by Neanderthals at a much earlier time than any of those previously reported,” said Miguel Cortés Sanchez of Seville University.

Leaks  in Kapilvastu Museum in the Himalayas are endangering archaeological artifacts.

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