Software engineer Andy Carol has constructed a Lego device that performs the same calculations as the Antikythera Mechanism, dubbed the world’s oldest computer. The Guardian has You Tube video of the Lego device in action, in addition to information on the original Greek instrument.

A 17-year-old has been charged with spray painting graffiti with a gang enhancement on rock art in Red Rock Canyon, located near Las Vegas. “This is not a very good city to be a tagger in. We are going to find you and we are going to arrest you,” said Detective Scott Black.  

CNN has investigated the state of conservation efforts at Pompeii. “The financial resources available for restoration and conservation have always been negligible. Instead it is preferred to dig, rather than preserve what has already been discovered,” explained former superintendant of the ancient city, Pietro Giovanni Guzzo.  

Ceramic fragments and greenstone beads have been recovered from the water-filled crater of the Nevado de Toluca Volcano in Mexico.  

When the Environmental Protection Agency cleans up toxic waste at Superfund sites, it is required to determine if significant historic features are present. Sometimes archaeologists are asked to retrieve artifacts while wearing hazmat gear and respirators.   

Zooarchaeologist Natalie Munro of the University of Connecticut talks about her study of animal skeletal remains at archaeological sites, including Hilazon Tachtit, where archaeologists think they have unearthed evidence of ritual feasting 12,000 years ago.  

Live Science has more information on the idea that early modern humans lived on the Arabian Peninsula 125,000 years ago. The Neolithic settlements that have been found on the shores of the Persian Gulf had stone houses, trade networks, pottery, domesticated animals, and boats.

The tip of an arrow has been found lodged in the spine of a man who had been buried 8,500 years ago in northwestern Turkey. Paleoanthropologist Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg says that the wound would have quickly caused the man’s death.

Evidence of ritualized child sacrifice has been uncovered at Cerro Cerrillos in northern Peru, according to Haagen Klaus of Utah Valley University. His team also found seeds of Nactandra plants near the skeletons of the children, suggesting that they may have been given this drug, which has paralytic and hallucinogenic properties.  

Prehistoric human and animal footprints have been revealed by receding waters in western England, near the coast of the Irish Sea.  

A lead tablet inscribed with curses written in ancient Greek has been unearthed in Lebanon by a team from Kyoto University.