Akhenaten was a subject for this year’s conference on the deaths of historic figures, held at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Physician Irwin Braverman of Yale University suggested that the feminine pharaoh had a hereditary condition called familial gynecomastia.

We’ve been waiting for a couple of days, and here it is–an interview with archaeologist Dieter Noli. He talks about his 20 years advising De Beers and the late fifteenth-century shipwreck discovered off the coast of Namibia in this article. (Don’t bother watching the video posted to the left of the article.)  

Nine hundred boxes of artifacts excavated from Tse-whit-zen, a 2,700-year-old fishing village in Washington State, are “hung up in a bureaucratic no man’s land.” Some $10 million was spent on archaeological work at the failed dry-dock site, but funding has since dried up. Who owns the artifacts, and who should pay for their analysis?  

A section of Paglicci Cave’s exterior wall has collapsed, putting the rest of the cave, located in southern Italy, in imminent danger. The cave is known for its Paleolithic paintings.  

In Bulgaria, four statues were uncovered at a temple dedicated to the Phrygian goddess Cybele. Two of the figurines represent Cybele; the others are thought to represent Aphrodite and Dionysus. The temple was discovered last year.

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