A 2,700-year-old tomb discovered in a pyramid in southern Mexico may be the oldest pyramid tomb to be documented in Mesoamerica. The tomb was built by the Zoque Indians, and ceramics inside the tomb show influences from the Olmec culture.

Greek police have confiscated two marble statues from two farmers who tried to sell them. 

Excavations in Kultepe, Turkey, revealed inscriptions about going to prison, release from prison, and facing punishment in prison. “It is a significant indication that there were many prisons in Anatolia approximately 4,000 years ago,” said archaeologist Fikri Kulakoglu.  

Young students get to help archaeologist David Bush of Heidelberg University at Johnson’s Island Civil War prison. 

Unauthorized salvage is the biggest threat to the HMS Victory, which sank in the English Channel in 1744, killing 1,000 sailors. Rumors that the ship was carrying gold bullion at the time it sank make it vulnerable to treasure hunters.  

Women made faience beads at home in ancient Egypt, says Mark Eccleston of Australia’s La Trobe University. “There is an increasing amount of evidence that work was done in the home to provide extra income for the household,” he explained.  

A nineteenth-century gold coin bearing the likeness of Napoleon III has been unearthed in Jaffa, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. European gold coins were in use in remote parts of the Ottoman Empire until the end of the First World War.  

Mountaineer Duncan Chessell will search Mount Everest for evidence that Andrew “Sandy” Irvine and George Mallory reached the peak in 1924, 29 years earlier than Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Mallory’s camera and Irvine’s body have never been found.

A colossal red-granite statue of the god Thoth has been unearthed near the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor, Egypt.

Scientists have replicated a 1.3 million-year-old date for Mexico’s Xalnene Ash, which is said to contain some controversial so-called footprints. Optical stimulated luminescence tests suggested that the ash and was 40,000 years old, and hence, that modern humans reached the Americas much earlier than previously thought. “Considering what we know about the timings of hominid migrations out of Africa up into Europe and Asia, it is highly improbable that hominids could have made it to the Americas by 1.3 million years before present,” said Darren Mark of the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre.  

Jewelry and coins dating to the thirteenth century were discovered at a construction site in Andhra Pradesh, India. The Hindu offers a slideshow of the objects.  

Small glass vessels dating to the fourth century have been unearthed at the Strumica Fortress in eastern Macedonia. Archaeologists also found decorated pottery from the Bronze Age.  

A terracotta medicine bottle was found in Bodrum, Turkey, where archaeologists also uncovered the remains of walls, water pipes, a freshwater spring, and five terracotta sarcophagi containing skeletal remains. “This is the first known finding of a medicine bottle from the Hellenistic period in ancient Halicarnassus,” said archaeologist Ece Benli Bagci.  

Researchers from the James River Institute of Archaeology used ground-penetrating radar to look for an eighteenth-century estate in Yorktown, Virginia. A British fort is also thought to be located on the property. “There is a very strong likelihood we will find a host of significant archaeological features,” said archaeologist Nick Luccketti.  

Chile’s National Monuments Council says that 56 archaeological sites were damaged during the 2010 Dakar Rally. The office is asking the country’s National Sports Institute to pay damages.  

Demonstrators have tried to stop the removal of 1,400-year-old human remains from the site of a future hospital emergency room in Ashkelon, Israel. The protestors say the bones are Jewish and should not be disturbed, according to religious practice. Archaeologists say the graves belonged to Christians or pagans from the Byzantine period.  There’s more on the demonstration and politics in Israel at The Independent.  

The government of Indonesia continues to discuss the haul of artifacts salvaged from a 1,000-year-old shipwreck off the coast of West Java. Indonesia has not ratified the United Nation’s convention on the protection of underwater cultural heritage.