A nine-ton granite temple pylon from Cleopatra’s palace complex has been lifted from Alexandria’s harbor.  

A 4,000-year-old lentil discovered in Turkey has germinated. “Barley, lentil, wheat, all of these originated in Anatolia,” said Nükhet Bingöl of Dumlupinar University.  

Two blocks of butter were found in early twentieth-century British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s hut in Antarctica. “It’s quite amazing how strong the smell is after nearly 100 years. I’m not sure I’d want it on my toast,” said Lizzie Meek of the Antarctic Heritage Trust.  

Scientists have detected levels of lead that are “off the scale” in a 160-year-old soup can thought to have been left behind in the Canadian Arctic by rescue teams sent to search for the crew of the Franklin Expedition. The rescuers and the Franklin Expedition were provisioned by the same supplier. It is thought that lead poisoning from the food supplies, or from pipes in the ships’ fresh water systems, may have had a debilitating effect on the explorers.    

A Gospel of Mark housed at the University of Chicago has been shown to be a late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century forgery of a Byzantine manuscript. Known as the Archaic Mark, the university will keep the fake as a teaching tool.

Remains in a first-century A.D. tomb near Jerusalem’s Old City show first known case of leprosy according to DNA analysis. The remains were found still in a shroud, which was made with a simple two-way weave, unlike the Shroud of Turin’s complex weave, further evidence that the latter is of medieval date.

The New Haven Green was once the site of a Colonial-era cemetery—and turns out it still is. Archaeologists testing a new Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) machine pinpointed what could be a number of shallow graves.

Human remains found by contractors in Lakewood, Rhode Island, last week are Native American according to the state archaeologist. The skeleton was found during digging of the cellar being prepped for a new concrete basement. (Does this sound like the premise of a bad Hollywood horror film?)

Harvard archaeologists have found a wall trench that might be from the 1655 Indian College, one of the university’s earliest buildings.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 4th-century Roman burial in northwest Budapest.