Archaeologist Carlos Wester of the Bruning Museum in Lambayeque, and his team have unearthed the tomb of a lord of the Lambayeque culture at the temple complex of Chotuna Chornancap, Peru. Copper machetes and human offerings suggest that he had been an executioner.

A skull has been found at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Jeff Fong of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific thinks it may belong to one of the 55 Japanese pilots who died during the attack on December 7, 1941.

CNN offers more information on the MEGA-Iraq (Middle Eastern geodatabase for heritage) project, developed by the Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund.

The stage at the ancient theater at Hieropolis in Turkey will be restored.

NBC reporter Richard Engel visits Libya and the ancient city of Cyrene in this Today Show video.

A new analysis of the 3.7 million-year-old Laetoli footprints in Tanzania suggests that Australopithecus afarensishad feet similar to those of modern humans, in addition to an upright gait. “They are more human prints than ape prints, and I don’t think that can be debated anymore,” said Robin Crompton of the University of Liverpool.

Mike Waters of Texas A&M University has found an archaeological site in central Texas that he says was first used between 15,000 and 15,500 years ago. “For thousands of years, this site was an ideal place to make camp. There’s a spring-fed creek that never runs dry and the kind of stone that’s perfect for making tools,” he explained.

In Colorado, students are excavating the Meeker Home, where the founder of the city of Greeley lived in the late nineteenth century.

Rock art estimated to have been engraved 12,000 years ago has been discovered in a cave in southern Germany. Scholars think the images were used in fertility rites.