Pavlopetri, a submerged Mycenaean town off the coast of Greece, is 1,200 years older than previously thought. “It is a rare find and it is significant because as a submerged site it was never re-occupied and therefore represents a frozen moment of the past,” said Elias Spondylis of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

An Anglo-Greek team of scholars thinks that a network of tunnels in a quarry near Gortyn, the ancient capital of Crete, may be the original site of the mythical Labyrinth. English archaeologist Arthur Evans excavated the Minoan palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, and promoted it as the original location of the maze. “Going into the Labyrinthos Caves at Gortyn it’s easy to feel that this is a dark and dangerous place where it is easy to get lost. Evans’ hypothesis that the palace of Knossos is also the Labyrinth must be treated skeptically,” said Nicholas Howarth of Oxford University.  

A depiction of the pretzel-like Staffordshire Knot has been found on an Anglo-Saxon artifact from the Staffordshire Hoard, indicating that the knot is 500 years older than previously thought.   

Charles Denton Armstrong, who is accused of threatening to hurt a key witness in the federal illegal artifacts-trafficking sting in Utah, is due to appear in court today. Prosecutors say they have reached a tentative settlement with him.   This article is about the man who was threatened, “The Source.”  

The Piqua Shawnee Tribe has asked that a tree-covered mound in western Ohio be surrounded by a protective barrier because there are plans to build a commercial wind farm in the area. “We don’t have any plans to disturb that mound,” replied Michael Speerschneider of EverPower.

 A second man-made lake lined with limestone blocks was unearthed at the Temple of Mut in Tanis, according to an announcement made by Egypt’s Culture Ministry.

Frank Ruhli, a Swiss anatomist and paleopathologist, has mummified a human leg using an ancient Egyptian recipe and high-tech tools to monitor the process. “It is a very important project. Using the latest technologies for moment-by-moment analysis certainly adds to our knowledge on the ancient mummification process,” commented Bob Brier, who replicated Egyptian mummification using a male body in 1994.  

In Syria, experts are cleaning two Crusader-era paintings discovered within a fortress overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The paintings depict heaven and hell. “Crusaders did not stay in one place for a long time, and so it is very rare to find such paintings left behind by them,” said Michel Makdisi, head of excavations for Syria’s Directorate General of Antiquities.  

The rediscovery of an amphitheater near Rome’s Fumicino International Airport has popped up on CNN. “The great Italian archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani reported the discovery of a theater in the 1860s but nobody could actually find it,” said Simon Keay of the University of Southhampton.  

A team of European archaeologists has been studying an historic battlefield in Lutzen, Germany, where a modern supermarket now sits. “This area was a chess board on which the history of Europe was played out. It is really quite exciting to be involved,” said Tony Pollard of the University of Glasgow.   

Forensic analysis has shown that the remains of a Civil War soldier who died of disease in Washington, D.C., were in fact buried in his family’s cemetery in New Hampshire. The cemetery is being moved away from a highway exit.  

A local sheriff in Wisconsin has found looters’ holes on county land where human remains were found last summer.  

The Neues Museum, part of Berlin’s neoclassical Museum Island complex, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will reopen this weekend. “It is a special day … 70 years after it was closed, this building can be handed over to the public again. It is, in a way, the end of the postwar era for the Museum Island,” said Hermann Parzinger of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.