Archaeologists do not agree on the possible age and use of a tiny clay face discovered near Ebbert Spring, Pennsylvania. “Whether it was the personal property of a religious specialist like a shaman or whether it was the ornament or an object used by an individual within that community is something that (based on the evidence so far) I don’t think we can say,” commented Michael Stewart of Temple University.

A large building has been unearthed near the burial mound of the “prince of Leubingen” in eastern Germany. Next to the building, a ceramic pot holding 100 bronze hatchet blades and the simple graves of more than 40 people were found.

The vaults at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in southwestern India have been opened, revealing the treasures stored in the sixteenth century by the Travancore royal family. “Bags and bags full of diamonds have been found,” said Amitava Chowdhury of Queen’s University.

The opening to a large bunker has been found in Coleshill, England, where Winston Churchill had a secret war-time headquarters.

More Aboriginal bones have been uncovered at the site of a rail extension project in South Australia.

Rock art depicting a celebration from Egypt’s earliest dynasty has been found along the banks of the Nile River in Aswan.

A stone gate has been unearthed at the temple of Karnak in Luxor. Built by Nubian King Shabaka, the 2,700-year-old gate led to a room containing his treasures.

While examining the bones and decapitated heads discovered in a mass burial pit in Dorset, England, archaeologists found a pair of front teeth that had been filed with grooves. “It’s difficult to say how painful the process of filing teeth may have been, but it wouldn’t have been a pleasant experience,” said David Score, manager of the project. The executed men are thought to have been Viking warriors.

In Bulgaria, archaeologist Ivan Hristov found a ceremonial double-headed ax near at the fortified home of the rulers from the Odrysian tribe.

A thirteenth-century pot decorated with a ram’s head was unearthed at a manor house in Wales. “We’ve always known about the manorial estate but the amount of highly decorative pottery we’ve found including French tableware shows we’re looking at a high status family, more wealthy than we’d realized,” said Alice Forward of Cardiff University.

The search for traces of human habitation in North Carolina’s Great Dismal Swamp continues. The swamp was a safe haven for thousands of people who escaped slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. “Thousands of people lived here, and for the most part, those lives went unrecorded,” said Dan Sayers of American University.

Two archaeologists in Oregon invested in a commercial building, only to find that the back parking lot was built upon a trash pit once used by Chinese immigrants.

Peru is seeking the return of hundreds of Paracas textiles held at Sweden’s Gothenburg World Culture Museum.

The discovery of a skull in a residential garden in London has led to the closing of a 130-year-old murder case.