Signs of trepanation and bone growth have been found on three men’s skulls from the ancient Garamantian civilization in North Africa. Reasons for the skull surgeries are unclear.

Ancient Roman glass is helping scientists understand how to build better storage containers for nuclear waste.

Scholars now think that the bog body discovered in Ireland’s County Laois belonged to a sacrificed Irish king. It had been thought that the body consisted only of the lower limbs of a young woman.

The restoration of Moku’ula, the historic Maui palace of Hawaii’s kings, is in the planning stage. The wetlands and fishpond that surrounded the island will also be reconstructed. Moku’ula was abandoned in when the royal government moved to Oahu in the mid-nineteenth century.

A ring, a pocketknife, a buckle, and keys have been unearthed at Camp Lawton, a Civil War stockade and prison that was discovered in Georgia last year. The camp housed 10,000 soldiers for just six weeks.

The foundations of four houses said to be the oldest in Sri Lanka have been unearthed, along with pottery, beads, and iron tools.

A detailed survey of Fort Laurens State Memorial will help archaeologists determine the best place to build a replica of the only Revolutionary War-era fort in Ohio. “We have to find a place with the least amount of archaeology,” explained archaeologist Jarrod Burks.

When did human ancestors begin to travel by sea? Geologist Karl Wegmann of North Carolina State University determined that stone tools found embedded in rock formations on the island of Crete are 130,000 years old.

A new study of documents related to the excavation of the famed bust of Nefertiti in 1912 is due out this week. Spiegel Online has the story.