Declassified American documents and photographs, and the mass graves of thousands of peasants and leftists executed in South Korea in 1950, are coming to light. Historian Kim Dong-choon has called the killings “the most tragic and brutal chapter of the Korean War.”

University of Chicago archaeology students are getting their trowels dirty on the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition, also known as the White City, built in 1893 and used for the World’s Fair for six months. “We’re interested in seeing what is left of the buildings themselves. I am interested in the experiences of the tourists. What were they buying, eating, and drinking at the fair?” said Ph.D. candidate Rebecca Graff.  

Rapid population growth and development in Utah is churning up a wealth of archaeological artifacts, but state law does not require that they be preserved. Some builders are incorporating sites into their plans, creating “archaeology-themed suburbs.”  

Coroner Niels Lynnerup and sculptor Bjorn Skaarup have been rebuilding the faces of Denmark’s historic figures and the 10,000-year-old Koelbjerg woman of Funen. “When we see how just one of our forefathers looked, we discover that they didn’t really look much different from ourselves,” said Lynnerup.  

Canadian archaeologist Jacques Cinq-Mars will return to Beringia, also known as the land bridge between Siberia and North America, to look for evidence of human habitation before the Ice Age. Twenty years ago, he found a 28,000-year-old chipped mammoth bone in a cave above the Bluefish River.   

Construction work in London for the 2012 Olympic Games has uncovered a 150-year-old cobbled street in what had been an industrial area, thought to be the original Temple Mills Lane.    

The bones of an Aboriginal man were discovered on a remote, protected beach in South West Australia. The area may have been a burial ground.

Actor Harrison Ford has been elected to the board of ARCHAEOLOGY’s parent organization, the Archaeological Institute of America.

Tree-ring data indicates that an El Nino was occurring in 1520, and may have eased Ferdinand Magellan’s trip across the Pacific Ocean, according to a new study summarized in Science.

A water main made of a log bored through its center, sheeted in metal, and coated with creosote, was uncovered during road construction in northern Michigan, right behind a fire house. “I’d always heard about wooden water mains, and how firemen used to dig a hole in the ground and then poke a hole in the pipe with a pick head ax,” said Fire captain Bob Adrian. The pipe will go on display at the station.

Turkey’s ancient Anatolian city of Aizanoi will soon open to the tourist trade. The city became wealthy under the Romans, and is known for its temple of Zeus, bath houses, gymnasium, dam, column-lined avenues, necropolis, and sacred cave dedicated to the goddess Meter Steunene.

Tourism at Delphi, however, is still going strong. Writer Chris Welsch tells of his visit to the Oracle and his hike along the pilgrims’ path, and he offers tips for planning a visit to this ancient Greek city.

The Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum in western Pennsylvania reopens this week after being closed for a year for renovations.

Portuguese archaeologists will probably help with the study of a sixteenth-century wreck discovered off the coast of Namibia last month. “We have every interest in cooperating with local authorities to save an artifact that is ours – not in a material sense, but in a sentimental sense,” said Joao Pedro Cunha Ribeiro, deputy director of Lisbon’s architectural and archaeological heritage management agency.