Two partially mummified bodies were discovered at the burial ground located in Mexico’s Giant’s Cave. The remains are thought to be between 800 and 1,000 years old.

Two people were arrested in Istanbul for attempting to sell artifacts at the Grand Bazaar.

The York Archaeological Trust continues to study the skeletons unearthed between 2004 and 2005 at Driffield Terrace. “Arguments continue as to whether they were trained fighters, soldiers who died in battle, whether they were executed or whether the unusual aspects of their burial reflect a group with unusual religious views,” explained Sarah Maltby.

Here’s some information on Delphi and its oracle from the Greek newspaper E Kathimerini.

England’s “Portal to the Past” project will compile all available data into a digital archive of maps and information from the Bronze Age through 1086. “We hope this project will provide an in-depth analysis of the whole of England, so we can glean new insights into how the landscape has changed and developed,” said Chris Gosden of the University of Oxford.

Archaeologists from the University of South Alabama have surveyed the Old Federal Road, which connected Augusta, Georgia, to Mobile, Alabama, 200 years ago.

The fossilized skull of a 20 million-year-old primate, Ugandapithecus major, has been found in Uganda.

South Africa’s Pinnacle Point was the home to a few surviving Homo sapiens between 164,000 and 120,000 years ago, according to Curtis Marean of Arizona State University. He says that Stone Age people tracked the moon’s phases in order to harvest shellfish and that they engaged in ritual activities. “Our excavations may have intercepted ancient people who shadowed the shifting shoreline and are the ancestors of everyone on the planet,” he said.

Giulio Magli of the Milan Polytechnic Institute and Robert Hannah of the University of Otago have shown that a shaft of light shines through the oculus of the Pantheon and illuminates its entrance on two important days when the emperor Hadrian would have visited the temple. “The emperor would have been illuminated as if by film studio lights. It would have been a glorification of the power of the emperor, and of Rome itself,” explained Magli.

A Bronze Age tomb in Syria contained luxury grave goods and the skeletons of a tall, well-muscled man and a robust woman. Two healed cuts on the man’s upper right arm indicate he may have been a warrior.

A chess piece carved from a piece of herringbone was unearthed in Iceland, at the farm of one of the first settlers.

Ken Tankersley of the University of Cincinnati says that the earthwork in Mariemont, Ohio, is a 2,952-foot-long serpent mound, making it more than twice the length of Great Serpent Mound. A satellite image revealed its squiggly shape.

Excavation at the site of Fort William Henry in Lake George, New York, continues this summer. “The fort was built on thousands of years of Native American settlements, and that’s the story we’d like to tell here more clearly in the exhibits,” said David Starbuck of Plymouth State University.

Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister  Ertugrul Günay is shaking up archaeology. “Some of the foreign-run excavations are going well, but some groups only come here, work for 15 days and leave. We are not going to allow that. If they don’t work on it, they should hand it over,” he said.

A shipwreck revealed by drought in a Louisiana bayou has been tentatively identified as the steamboat Big Horn, which caught fire and sank in 1873.

Four human burials turned up during the expansion of the emergency room at Yale New Haven Hospital. “It turns out that there was a cemetery there that had 550 people in it,” said Howard Eckels, a retired state police detective.

Jim Page of Springfield, Tennessee, wants the remains of 11 American soldiers thought to have been killed in Mexico in 1846 to be returned the U.S. The bones were uncovered during a construction project.

Earlier this year, the University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum received an anonymous donation of prehistoric artifacts from Mexico. It turned out that the collection had been stolen.