Clouds blocked the view of the sunrise this morning at Stonehenge, but some 18,000 people still attended the summer solstice festivities.

In Cyprus, Gisela Walberg of the University of Cincinnati found a Bronze Age fortress that may have been built to protect the ancient city of Bamboula, which was located further inland. “It’s quite clear that it is a fortress because of the widths and strengths of the walls. No house wall from that period would have that strength. That would have been totally unnecessary,” she explained.

Thirty-two-thousand-year-old fossils of modern humans of the Gravettian cultural tradition have been unearthed in a cave in Ukraine. Cut marks indicate that flesh had been removed from the bones for ritual purposes. “These people had knives, lightweight tools, open air camps, they used mammoth bones to make tents,” said Clive Finlayson of the Gibraltar Museum.

Remains of at least three American Indian individuals have been unearthed at a construction site in Washington State’s Whidbey Island. It has yet to be decided if the bones will be removed or reburied at the site.

Five years later, the FBI is still looking for 26 Caddo Indian artifacts that were stolen from Southern Arkansas University.

Scientists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have uncovered a staircase and a stuccoed floor from the earliest stages of the Templo Mayor at Tlatelolco. Historical records suggest that the city was founded in 1337, but the staircase and floor may be older.

There’s evidence of arrowhead technology in South Africa that is at least 60,000 years old, according to Marlize Lombard of the University of Johannesburg. “The invention of the bow and arrow used to be closely linked to the late Upper Paleolithic (Stone Age) in Europe,” she added.

More than 1,000 human bones have been found in the Tomb of the Otters in Orkney. The bones could help archaeologists figure out how long the Neolithic tomb was in use. “This gives us a really good indication of what to expect in the tomb’s other cells and an opportunity to study the people who lived and died in Orkney so many years ago,” said Dan Lee of the Orkney Research Center for Archaeology.

At Israel’s necropolis of Beit She’arim, archaeologists are recording the ancient graffiti left by Jews of the first and second centuries. “They were grapho-maniacal,” said Jonathan Price of Tel Aviv University. Be sure to view all 16 of the photographs that accompany this article at NPR.

Erosion, extreme heat, and salty soil threaten the Sumerian capital of Ur, located in modern southern Iraq. But archaeologists have been reluctant to return to the war-torn region. “It is crucial to show that foreign missions are overcoming fears and restarting missions,” said Franco d’Agostino of Rome’s Sapienza University.

Wind and water threaten historic sites in Iceland.

Michael Carter of Canada’s Brock University offers an explanation for an enigmatic inscription on a gladiator’s tombstone that was discovered in Turkey 100 years ago.

Readers of Fox News guessed what an object known as a Roman dodecahedron might have been in the ancient world.

Here’s more information on the recent announcement from North Carolina’s Office of Archives and History about the shipwreck identified as the Queen Anne’s Revenge.