Archaeologists and volunteers have found the shoreline of a sheltered lagoon where the invading Roman forces first landed in Britain in 43 A.D. The spot is now two miles inland at Richborough Roman Fort, in Kent.

Are you looking for a job? Italy needs a new chief curator to run all of its museums.   

A bowl discovered in the underwater ruins of Alexandria’s ancient harbor is inscribed with the words “DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS,” interpreted as “by Christ the magician,” or “the magician by Christ.” The bowl has been dated to between the late second century B.C. and the early first century A.D., and may have been used by a soothsayer in fortune telling rituals.  

A large gate has reportedly been uncovered at Pelinna, in central Greece.  

The weather has cleared, and the salvage of a Portuguese shipwreck discovered off Namibia’s Skeleton Coast will continue as planned. Some officials thought that work would have to stop today.  

New York State archivist Daniel D. Lorello will be sentenced today for stealing artifacts and documents from the state’s Library and Archives.  

Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, clears up some rumors about the pillar of Merenptah in Al-Ahram.

Royal retainers living at Machu Picchu came from different parts of the Inca empire. Analysis of their bones shows that the yanacona grew up drinking water from different sources and eating different foods. Their skulls also display regionally distinctive characteristics, and they had been buried with pottery made in far-flung parts of the empire.

In the Roman port city of Ostia Antica, four second-century housing complexes decorated with frescoes have been restored and will be opened to the public. “They’re exceptional indicators of the emerging merchant class and the economic and political well-being of the city in the second century,” said archaeologist Flora Panariti.  

Construction plans that would have destroyed the “Stonehenge of Sevilla” have been canceled after some damage was inflicted by heavy machinery. The site, with its five dolmens and 22 burial chambers, is thought to be the largest Copper Age settlement in Spain. “In a strange sort of way it was good news that the developers moved in and helped to excavate the dolmens as now we know they are there officially to protect them,” said local activist Juan Antonio Morales.  

Different strains of house mice have been found to be living in Britain. Mice on the mainland share a genetic heritage with those living in Germany, but mice from the Orkney Islands, which was Viking territory in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, are related to those living in Norway.   

A mid-nineteenth-century water main made of wood was uncovered in downtown Syracuse, New York. The city had a private water system build by Oliver Teall, one of its founders.  

Today, Orillia, Ontario, sits on top of the Mount Slavin site, where burials, beads, arrowheads, spear points, wampum, and French iron axes, copper kettles, and knife blades were dug up by locals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scholars aren’t sure if the site’s earlier residents were Algonquins or Hurons.  

The skeletal remains of Col. David H. Zook, U.S. Air Force, were found in Vietnam. His U-10B Super Courier aircraft went down on October 4, 1967.