A Greek man was arrested for digging tunnels from a well on his property to archaeological sites in Megara. Pottery and stones from an ancient wall were found in the tunnels, and artifacts and 20 bags of earth were found in his home.

Part of the 1,000-year-old Pfeffer site in St. Clair County, Illinois, was bulldozed by a housing developer last month. “This is a very important site for the beginnings of Cahokia. This destruction is a significant loss. This was an emerging civilization,” said Tim Pauketat of the University of Illinois.  

An Israeli lifeguard snorkeling at the ancient port of Yavne-Yam discovered a 2,500-year-old eye-shaped disc. “We know from drawings on pottery vessels … that this model was very common on the bows of ships and was used to protect them from the evil eye and envy, and was meant as a navigation aid and to act as a pair of eyes which looked ahead and warned of danger,” said Yaakov Sharvit of the Israel Antiquities Authority.   

In Australia, four Aboriginal rock carvings were revealed when an early twentieth-century road was removed on the Sydney Harbor foreshore. The engravings depict a man, two spirit men with rays emanating from their heads, and a school of fish.  

Excavations at Rutgers Stadium in New Jersey have uncovered parts of the eighteenth-century settlement known as Raritan Landing, including the foundations of the Rising Sun Tavern, which operated between the 1730s and the 1840s. “We knew what we were looking for before we started this part of the project,” said archaeologist Rebecca Yamin.   

What could be a Roman legionary’s ceremonial lance has been uncovered in Caerleon, a Roman fortress in Wales. The staff was probably decorated with plumes, according to Peter Guest of Cardiff University.   

British scientists will study DNA from ancient bones from Jericho to develop treatments for tuberculosis.

FBI forensics personnel excluded archaeologists from the excavation of a skeleton found in Escalante, Utah. The bones are thought to belong to an American Indian man in his 50s or 60s, and were found with a musket, ammunition, and a bucket.  “We try to work with law enforcement. If there is a possibility that there is a crime involved, we would want the police there, and vice versa if it’s an historic site. Neither of us benefit working in isolation,” said state archaeologist Kevin Jones.  

Here’s another article on the plan to open up the sealed cave beneath the Pyramid of the Sun later this month. “We want to find out why the Teotihuacan people sealed it and when. Excavating the cave could give us some clues about what happened at Teotihuacan, about the fate of the city,” said Alejandro Sarabia, director of archaeology at Teotihuacan.

A man digging out a pond on his property in Bangladesh uncovered a tenth-century statue of Lord Vishnu, called by archaeologist AKM Zakaria, “one of the finest and one of the largest artifacts discovered in the country.” Local people took steps to protect the statue from smugglers, but the country’s museum officials are arguing over where the statue should be kept.

In Macedonia, archaeologist Marina Oncevska unearthed a statue of Venus dating to the second or third century. “The smoothness of the marble and the beauty of the statue give us the clue that this masterpiece came from one of the best artistic schools in the Mediterranean,” she said.   Additional photographs are shown in this article from Macedonia.  

An excavation on Cyprus revealed a lead curse tablet dating to the seventh century A.D.   

Mesolithic hunter-gatherers may have been more territorial than previously thought, according to new research and a map of the 10,000-year-old landscape known as Doggerland, now submerged beneath the North Sea. The map was made using seismic survey data collected by an oil company.  

Shelby White will return two artifacts from her collection of antiquities, after reaching an agreement with the Greek Ministry of Culture.   

A man reportedly died in China when the tomb he was looting collapsed.  

A physics professor from the University of Maine helped federal agents identify the emerald artifacts recently returned to Colombia. C.T. Hess used an X-ray fluorescence machine to confirm that all 15 emeralds had come from the same site.  

A battleship designed by Peter the Great was found in the Baltic Sea, near Kotlin Island, during a Russian film project titled “Secrets of the Sunken Ships.” Some 30 warships have been found by the team so far.  

Scientists will survey three German U-boats sunk off the coast of North Carolina during the Battle of the Atlantic in 1942. Although the wrecks are considered war graves, they are open to divers, and have been “severely impacted by salvage operators and souvenir hunters.”