Jars holding the 2,900-year-old cremated remains of Phoenicians have been unearthed at Tyre, in southern Lebanon. “The big jars are like individual tombs. The smaller jars are left empty, but symbolically represent that a soul is stored in them,” said archaeologist Ali Badawi.

Can the damage done to ancient Babylon be repaired? Looters, Saddam Hussein’s construction projects, and occupation by American and Polish troops have all taken their toll, according to UNESCO, the World Monuments Fund, and Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage.  

Tombs dating to China’s Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11 century to 771 B.C.) have yielded more than 1,100 characters inscribed on oracle bones.  

What exactly have archaeologists discovered at the site planned for the new Sugar House Casino in Philadelphia? A local historian thinks the eighteenth-century foundation of the famed Bachelor’s Hall has been uncovered, but archaeologists working for the casino say the foundation was built at least 100 years later.  

Construction crews in Denver, Colorado, turned up the burial place of the city’s founders, which was an Arapahoe burial ground before that. The area is now known as Cheesman Park.  

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, will begin construction of its African Burying Ground memorial project.  

You’ll soon be able to visit a 3D re-creation of Rome as it stood 320 A.D. on Google Earth. This virtual Rome was based upon the Plastico di Roma Antica, a model crafted between 1933 and 1974 and housed in the Museum of Roman Civilization.

Army Air Forces 2^nd Lt. Ray Packard went down in his P-38 Lightning fighter over German-occupied France in 1944. U.S. military archaeologists recently recovered his remains and returned them to his family.

Egypt’s 118^th pyramid has been uncovered in Saqqara, according to an announcement made by Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. It is thought to be 4,300 years old and belong to Queen Sesheshet.  ABC News has a photograph of the excavation.   Bloomberg offers a few more details, including how the Queen asked her doctors to find her a cure for hair loss.  

The palace garden quarters built in Beijing’s Forbidden City for the Qianlong Emperor, who retired in the 1770s, have been restored to their former glory. “The importance of the garden is that it is the most sophisticated design. This was the climax of the period,” said architectural historian Liu Chang, of Tsinghua University.  

A sinkhole in Old Sacramento, California, has revealed fragments of a trestle bridge from the first transcontinental railroad.  

Visit a Maya “road to Xibalba” in this video from National Geographic News.  

Here’s a photograph of the site near Jerusalem’s old city walls where archaeologists found a gold, pearl and emerald earring.  Get a closer look at the earring with this photograph from National Geographic News.