A miniature gemstone engraved with the bust of Alexander the Great has been discovered at Tel Dor, on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. “The emperor is portrayed as young and forceful, with a strong chin, straight nose, and long curly hair held in place by a diadem,” said Ayelet Gilboa of the University of Haifa.

Ground-penetrating radar was used to locate what could be the crash site where Eugene M. Bradley died in 1941 during training exercises at what was then the Windsor Locks Army Air Base in Connecticut. The airport is now known as Bradley International Airport.   

A male skeleton has been unearthed at the Roman town of Venta Icenorum in Norfolk, England. Archaeologists want to know if the town was built on top of an Iceni tribe’s settlement.  

A team from Appalachian State University traveled to Tanzania to uncover 58 footprints-the oldest known trackways of modern humans. “With the data we collected this summer, we hope to reconstruct the height, weight, and gait of the individuals that made these traces, and determine which nearby volcano produced the footprinted ash layer,” said geologist Cynthia Liutkus.  

Rob Rondeau of ProCom Diving Services responds to yesterday’s article and denies the accusation that he planned to search for Sir John Franklin’s lost ships in the Northwest Passage without a government permit.  

The remains of an unknown Civil War soldier recovered from Maryland’s Antietam National Battlefield will return to his home state of New York today. His bone fragments, belt buckle, and buttons were spotted by a hiker last year.  

Researchers are mapping the wrecks of Civil War blockade runners in the waters around Florida’s Tampa Bay.  

A Colorado man accused of artifact trafficking appeared in U.S. District Court in Denver yesterday. He will enter his plea at the end of the month.

What will happen to the thousands of artifacts confiscated by federal officials from accused looters in the Southwest? “Ultimately the people will benefit. Collections will be curated and made available to the public for research and exhibitions,” said Emily Palus, national curator for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Navy archaeologists are looking for funding to excavate an 1812 warship from the muddy marshlands of Maryland’s upper Patuxent River. “Not only did an army of invasion lay their boots on American soil, they burned our capital, and this fleet was trying to stop it. Here we have the presumed flagship 16 miles from the White House, in shallow water. In terms of historical value, this is extremely significant,” commented marine archaeologist Donald G. Shomette.  

Here’s more information on the three intact Aphrodite figurines found at the Greco-Roman city of Hippos, in Israel.  

Artifacts from the 1960s are telling archaeologists about life in a commune north of San Francisco.  

A private group that wants to search for Sir John Franklin’s lost ships in the Canadian Arctic apparently tried to work without an archaeological permit from the government. “The main reasons [for the denial of the permit] included inadequate experience, especially in respect to Arctic marine-based archaeology, and insufficient community and Inuit consultation,” said Julie Ross, an archaeologist with the Nunavut government.  

A drain at a medieval monastery in Scotland has yielded pottery, gaming pieces, a complete chamber pot, and music scratched into pieces of slate. “What’s unusual is that it hasn’t been messed with. This is a loo that hasn’t been flushed for 500 years,” said Steven Driscoll of Glasgow University.   

Two human feet, one from an adult and one from a child, were discovered in an attic in the Dublin area last December. The feet look as if they came from bog bodies.  

Excavations at Kents Cavern, the oldest human dwelling in Britain, have unearthed teeth and bones from late Ice Age mammals, as well as a sagaie, a spearpoint made from reindeer antler.  

Archaeologists explain how the use of ground-penetrating radar has transformed archaeology in an article for The Columbus Dispatch.